The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Inauguration Committee in Bayelsa State, Chief Samuel Ogbuku, has assured that the party would approach governance differently in the state after the February 14 handover.
Ogbuku insisted that the personality of the incoming Governor, Chief David Lyon, would compel people to adopt new political culture and values especially in the area of deploying and utilizing public resources.
Ogbuku, who said his committee was ready for a hitch-free inauguration, explained that Lyon was materially comfortable before his election and would only think of service delivery and not about stealing the commonwealth.
He said Lyon already acquired wealth, owned assorted vehicles and built comfortable houses in the country and outside and would not be bothered about getting similar properties as a governor.
He said: “APC will do things differently because the personality we have in Chief David Lyon will even force people to do things differently. This is a man that is comfortable before coming to become a governor.
“This is a man that is successful in his own business. So, it is not as if this is when he wants to build his first house or this is when he wants to buy his first car. So what he is coming for is service because there is a difference between when a poor man and a rich man takes over leadership.
“Aristotle said leadership should be for the aristocrats because they values of the poor and the rich are different. The poor man has poverty mentality and such mentality has eating deep into him. So he is greedy in anything he is doing. But the rich have different values.
“Why you are thinking of stealing what the poor are supposed to eat not knowing that the salaries are what they depend on, the rich man is thinking that he is bigger than such things. Why you are thinking of buying a car, the rich man has many of such cars” Why you are thinking of building a house, the rich man has houses in Abuja, Lagos and everywhere.
“So, why will the incoming governor see building of a house as a priority? This is a man that you see that his family has been in UK for many years. That is to say that he has a home there. So, will he be thinking of going to buy another home in UK. He has comfortable houses in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Yenagoa and his village.
“But the man that is going out now, do you know of anything he had before he became a governor? That is why you could see greed. The man that is going out now, the first time he traveled abroad was when he became governor. That is is why you could see greed.
