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Governor of Bayelsa State and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for the November 11, 2023 off-cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa, Senator Douye Diri on Friday stormed his native Local Government Area, Kolokuma/Opokuma for his re-electioneering campaigns.
Speaking at Igbedi community, home town of his wife and First Lady of the State, Dr (Mrs) Gloria Diri, the Governor promised to construct a linking road from Kaiama town, the headquarters of the Local Government Area to the community.
He said though he had earlier constructed a link road from the Amassoma and Ogobiri axis of the Bayelsa State International Airport to the community, he would also construct another link road directly from Kaiama to properly link the community with sister communities within the Local Government Area which are along the East-West road axis of the state, amongst other infrastructural projects.
National Wire monitored the campaigns and reports that the Governor also took his campaigns to Okoloba, Opokuma and Sabagreia(Seibokoragha) communities, all in the Constituency two of the Kolokuma/Opokuma council area of of the state, respectively.
Similarly, Governor Diri has also promised to fast track the construction of the ongoing Polaku-Sabagreia link road and bridge, saying as a Son of the Local Government Area, no other governorship candidate understands the problems and yearnings of his people better than him.
Meanwhile, Governor Diri has described recent insinuations from members of the opposition parties in the state on his most recent visit to President Tinubu as a ploy to hit up the polity.
He said as a sitting Governor, he was at liberty to congratulate President Tinubu following the Supreme Court verdict on the presidential election.
He contended that he was not disturbed by the speculations and lies of the opposition, whom he said became jittery because of his visit, stressing that propaganda had been the hallmark of politics of the opposition parties in the state.
This was just as the Bayelsa Chief Executive has also said the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 11 governorship election, Chief Timipre Sylva remained disqualified based on the first amended list of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
A statement by the Governor’s Spokesman and member of the Publicity Directorate of the Bayelsa PDP Governorship Campaign Council, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted him as saying he was at the presidential villa to discuss serious state matters with the president, whom he said attended to the issues positively.
Diri urged the Bayelsa State electorate not to waste their votes on a party that is not on the ballot, noting further that he was not in the Local Government Area to campaign, just as he said the projects of his administration in the Communities if the area were evident.
Governor For said: “I was in Abuja on Thursday and most of you saw the video trending. The opposition is now jittery and are telling lies. Of course, that is in their character. As a sitting governor, there is a sitting president and I do not owe them any explanation about my visit to the president.
“If the Supreme Court affirms the president of the country, as a sitting governor I reserve all the rights to visit him. But beyond that, I went for very serious state business and I can tell you that Mr. President attended to all the issues I raised.
“Those whose names have been delisted by amendment number one of INEC can no longer sleep. They will continue to have sleepless nights. In our second tenure, the other road that will be important to Bayelsa and even the people of Delta State and for the use of our airport will be to connect Igbedi to Kaiama. That will be the next project we will embark upon in our next tenure”.
Also speaking, the Director-General of the PDP gubernatorial elections campaign council, and member representing Ogbia Federal Constituency of the state, Hon(Chief) Mitema Obordor described Governor Diri as God sent to the state.
Obordor called on the people of the Local Government Area to work for and protect their own chances of retaining the Governor whom he described as their ‘Son whom Bayelsans were well pleased with’ as Governor of the state for the second term in office.
The campaign Director-General noted that the PDP and the Governor were not in the Local Government Area to campaign, but to inform them that it was their duty to protect their own as Governor come November 11th, 2023.
In same vein, wife of the governor, Dr. Gloria Diri, who is from the Local Government Area has thanked the people of the area for the rousing welcome accorded her husband and the support given him over the years, urging them not to relent.
Earlier, the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Environment, Iselema Gbaranbiri expressed appreciation to the Governor for the administration’s projects in the Local Government Area, assuring the State’s Chief Executive of total support of the communities of the area in the forthcoming November 11, 2023 election.
National Wire reports that highpoints of the campaign were the inauguration of some projects undertaken by the administration of Governor Diri, as well as the observation of a minute silence in honour of Mr. Peremobowei Tukuwei, the Director, Media and Publicity of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship campaign council who died in a tragic boat mishap recently while the party campaigned in Nembe Local Government Area of the state.
