Stakeholders Set Agenda for Diri's 2nd Term

Stakeholders in Bayelsa State have set agenda for Governor Duoye Diri in his second term, urging him to sustain the good legacies of his first four years.

While congratulating and praising him for the peace that pervaded the state in the last four years, they also encouraged him to improve on water and power supply in the state, especially in the state, capital, Yenagoa.

The Second Vice President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Chief Nengi James expressed optimism for a better Bayelsa in the next four years of Diri’s second term.

James, a holder of the Order of the Niger (OON) national honour, in a personally signed message, said as one of the founding fathers of the state that saw to its creation in 1996, he had always envisaged a progressive development for Bayelsa from one administration to the another, in alignment with their projection for the state.

Speaking with THISDAY in Yenagoa, an All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant, Festus Daumiebi, urged the governor to engage active citizen participation regardless of political party divides and other considerations to achieve accelerated development and build a better Bayelsa.

"You have risen above the pedestrian and erect yourself a statesman, when you combine politics with a peaceful, humane, and all-embracing heart to the admiration of all Bayelsans,” he said.

The umbrella body of Ijaws Youths worldwide, the Ijaws National Congress (IYC), said they expect that the Agge Deep Seaport project in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State would come to limelight during this second term because of its importance to the Ijaw people.

The IYC, which spoke through its spokesman, Binebai Princewill, said the governor who was in the forefront of the Ijaw struggles knew the pains of the people and appealed that he sustains the good legacies that he already has during his first tenure.