A former Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Seriake Dickson, has stated that the federal government, under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu, is busy with politics instead of governance.

Speaking on Tuesday during plenary, the lawmaker fumed that the present administration is busy with politics, receiving defectors across the country ahead of the 2027 general elections.

Seriake shared his concerns while speaking on the issue of the government’s non-payment of contractors.

“Clearly nobody is satisfied with the situation we find ourselves in. Mr President, I came in this morning to have a conversation with the chairman of our cooperation and also the chairman of finance, and if possible to discuss this on the floor I did not know this matter was slated for hearing,” Dickson said.

“Because we have all been inundated with complains all over, government has grounded that’s what it means, contractors who has done their jobs committed their resources cannot be paid, the benefit of the budget we all took time to work on and pass has not gotten to the people and guess what we are talking of the capital component.

“Maybe there is too much preoccupation with politics and 2027.

“Maybe there is too much concentration on receiving defectors across the country.

“The business of the Nigerian people to which we were all elected all of us and the president of the Federal Republic, is not moving forward,” he complained.

Reports indicate that many contractors handling federal government ministries, departments, and agencies’ projects have not been paid since October 2024.