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The Special Adviser to the Bayelsa State Governor on Inter-party Relations, Dr (Barr) Jackson Ebi Suokiri has said the state Governor, Senator Douye Diri has shown greater capacity and competence in the leadership of the state.
He made the assertions in his office in Yenagoa, on Wednesday while speaking with Journalists on the sidelines of the third anniversary celebrations of the Governor Diri’s led “Prosperity Government’.
It would be recalled that Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State took oath of office as governor on 14th February, 2020, and that on the 14th of February, 2023 he would have served three out of his first four year tenure as Governor of the state.
The Governor’s aide who bared his mind on the programmes and projects of the Diri’s administration reaffirmed the Governor’s Commitment towards human capacity and infrastructural development.
The Special Adviser noted also that upon the assumption of office as governor of the state, Senator Douye Diri has made the state entirely safe for investments to thrive by ensuring the enabling peace and tranquility and provision of adequate security architecture, this was just as he averred that there was no local government area of the state without executed or ongoing infrastructural projects by the Diri’s administration.
While calling on Bayelsans to continue in keeping faith in the government, the Kaiama-born legal practitioner lampooned those from the opposition divide whom he alleged were wont to making unfounded and unnecessary allegations against the government on its policies and programmes, respectively.
Suokiri who also spoke on the Governor’s recent picking up of the governorship intent form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the November, 2023 governorship polls in the state, noted that Governor Diri’s achievements were visible in all spheres of the state, saying he deserves re-election for consolidation and even greater achievements for the state.
The Special Adviser noted that: “This government has touched lives of Bayelsans in all spheres. It’s been paying salaries promptly to civil servants in the state civil service, it’s been conducting regular promotion exercises for civil servants in the state and implementing their promotion incremental benefits. This government from inception into office has been releasing N200,000,000m monthly for the payment of gratuity owed retirees.
“On infrastructure and urban renewal, this government has redesigned and reconstructed the Edepie/Etegwe roundabout in the Yenagoa LGA. This government completed and commissioned the Imiringi bridge, awarded contract and completed the construction of the collapsed Elebele bridge, both in the Ogbia LGA of the state.
“This government also initiated, constructed and inaugurated the 4.5km Igbedi road in the Kolokuma/Opokuma LGA of the state, completed construction and inaugurated the Nembe unity bridge in the Nembe LGA of the state, completed the Onopa bridge and constructed the access road to the New Yenagoa city, constructed and inaugurated the Igbogene-Okarki section of the phase one of the Igbogene-AIT/Elebele outer ring road, and don’t forget that the construction of the three Senatorial roads projects with multiples of bridges is on course under this administration, etc.”
He also stated that: “The projects are just so numerous, but don’t also forget that this government awarded contract for the construction of the finest and one of the biggest media complex in Nigeria, I’m talking about the completed and inaugurated Ernest Sesei Ikoli media complex, Ekeki, Yenagoa, also remember that this government has recently completed the modern bus terminal at Igbogene, in the Yenagoa LGA of the state.
Suokiri added that: “The Diri’s-led prosperity administration has also completed and done the official inauguration, and commencement of flights operations at the Bayelsa state International Airport, carried out the construction of the Bayelsa Health insurance building. In Agriculture, Lands and Housing, Trade and Investment, Education, Women, Children and social Welfare, Environment, Justice and the Judiciary, Labour and employment creation through capacity building and skills acquisition, etc, this government has made a strong mark.
“Diri has shown capacity and competence, he truly deserves a befitting second tenure and I want to urge all Bayelsans to queue behind the Governor on his second tenure when finally the time comes.”
