{"id":238142,"date":"2026-07-05T06:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-bayelsa-govt-rejects-pdps-poverty-claims-defends-6-year-record\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T06:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:13:12","slug":"nigeria-bayelsa-govt-rejects-pdps-poverty-claims-defends-6-year-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-bayelsa-govt-rejects-pdps-poverty-claims-defends-6-year-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Bayelsa Govt Rejects PDP&#8217;s Poverty Claims, Defends 6-Year Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The Bayelsa State Government has dismissed claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that Governor Douye Diri&#8217;s administration has failed to address hunger and poverty, insisting it has implemented wide-ranging programmes and projects aimed at improving residents&#8217; welfare over the past six years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Responding to the opposition&#8217;s criticism in a statement on Friday, the Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Mrs. Ebiuwou Koku-Obiyai, described the allegations as misleading, saying&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607030465.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bayelsa State Government has dismissed claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that Governor Douye Diri&#8217;s administration has failed to address hunger and poverty, insisting it has implemented wide-ranging programmes and projects aimed at improving residents&#8217; welfare over the past six years. Responding to the opposition&#8217;s criticism in a statement on Friday, the Commissioner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[39516,258,256,14663,8117,7820,4357,257,4687,393,17355,7121,5267,8440,254],"class_list":["post-238142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-6year","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bayelsa","tag-claims","tag-defends","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pdps","tag-poverty","tag-record","tag-rejects","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}