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Oct292025 by adminNo Comments

Another Bayelsa PDP senator Sunday Agadaga defects to APC, says PDP in shreds

News Feature

Sunday Agadaga, a senator representing Bayelsa east, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Agadaga announced his defection in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and read during the plenary on Wednesday. The letter was titled “Notice of resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party and formal movement and defection to the All Progressives Congress”. “As the saying goes, change is the only permanent thing in life,” the senator wrote in his letter. “Indeed, as the Holy Scriptures remind us, to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens. I believe that the time for change in my political sojourn on earth has come.” He said the decision to leave the PDP was no...

Jan182025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

ROAD TO GOVT HOUSE: How I Declined Offer to be a Ritualist ..Douye Diri.

Religion

Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has revealed how his absolute faith in God earned him the sobriquet ‘Miracle Governor.’ Speaking on Friday during the KOLGA (Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area) Annual Day of Thanksgiving held in Sampou, his community, the Bayelsa governor disclosed how in 2020, a senior citizen of Nigeria invited him to Abuja and advised him to perform certain rituals if he wanted to be governor but that he turned down the offer. He had challenged the declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 2019 governorship poll as winner and the matter was then pending at the Supreme Court. Diri told the crowd at the gathering that the senior citizen flew in some marabouts from Senegal to perform the rituals. When he bluntly...

Oct62024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Timi Frank accuses Wike of plot to block allocation to LGs in Rivers State

Press Release

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Sunday, raised the alarm over an alleged plot by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to secure a court injunction to block releases from the Federation Account to the 22 Local Government Councils in Rivers state. Frank who made this disclosure in a statement in Abuja, said Wike and his co-travelers that are opposed to the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, resorted to the plot following their failure to stop local government elections in the state which held successfully on Saturday the 5th of October, 2024. According to him, Wike through his proxies will tomorrow (Monday) or any day soon, approach a Federal High Court in Abuja with spuriou...

May292024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa Poll: How Tribunal Exposed Sylva, Police Commissioner’s Fraud – Diri

News Feature

Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has said the state’s governorship election petition tribunal, which sat in Abuja, exposed the electoral fraud perpetrated by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 11, 2023 poll in the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, the party’s chairman and a serving Commissioner of Police. The tribunal on Monday dismissed the APC and Sylva’s petition challenging the declaration of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Governor Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of the election for lacking in merit. The Bayelsa governor spoke on Tuesday night at the King of Glory Chapel in Government House, Yenagoa, where he stopped for thanksgiving upon his arrival from Abuja. A crowd of jubilant party m...

Nov202023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

PDP knocks APC over attacks on Jonathan

News Feature, Politics

Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state for attacking former President Goodluck Jonathan over personal comments he made during a visit to Governor Douye Diri last Friday. The PDP State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Ebiye Ogoli, in a statement on Monday, accused the APC of twisting the former president’s comments in order to pour out its frustrations after woefully losing the November 11 governorship election in the state. For clarity, His Excellency Dr. Jonathan, while congratulating the governor during the visit, said: “I told myself that if Diri loses this election, I might consider moving my mother to Abuja.” The PDP, therefore, wonders how in an election contested by candidates of 16 political partie...

Oct272023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

PDP Sympathises With APC, AIT Over Campaign Director’s Death

News Feature

The Bayelsa State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Campaign Council commiserates with the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state following the tragic boat incident that resulted in the death of the Media and Publicity Director of its campaign, Mr. Peremobowei Tukuwei. The PDP campaign council also condoles with the management and staff of the Africa Independent Television (AIT) over the loss of Tukuwei, a staff of the media organisation. It equally extends its condolences to the Tukuwei family of Ndoro community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of the state, noting that the state had lost a young man with great potential. Chairman, Publicity Directorate of the campaign council, Hon. Ayibaina Duba, in a statement on Friday, expressed shock over the tragic loss of ...

Oct262023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa Poll: God Answered Sylva’s Prayer, Says Diri *Unveils More Projects In Sagbama Communities

News Feature, Politics

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has described the delisting of Chief Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the list of governorship candidates in the November 11 election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as answer to his own prayer. Governor Diri also stated that Sylva’s disqualification by a Federal High Court in Abuja was in furtherance of that prayer. The Bayelsa governor, who is seeking re-election on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform, spoke at Ofoni community in Constituency 1 as he rounded off his campaigns in Sagbama Local Government Area on Wednesday. Diri recalled how the former governor told Bayelsans through a live programme on Yenagoa-based radio stations in November last year that the chapter of contesti...

Sep252022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Our Projects Not Shrouded In Secrecy – Bayelsa Govt

News Feature, Politics

We have read the scurrilous claims, circulating largely online, by a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Perekeme Kpodoh, against the government of His Excellency Senator Douye Diri. In the report, Chief Kpodoh alleged that the cost of projects being executed by the Bayelsa State government was shrouded in secrecy and that the contractors were unknown. One leg of this claim is laughable. Contractors and even consultants involved in a road or building project are often displayed on boards at project sites. Only those with ocular issues or bent on mischief cannot see them. The road, building and other projects undertaken by the Governor Diri administration, which Kpodoh could not deny, are clearly visible and not done under the cover of darkness. But, importantly...

May52022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

South Needs North to Actualise Presidency …Gov Douye Diri

News Feature, Politics

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said that no region can produce the president of the country without the support of other regions. He specifically stated that the demand of the southern governors that the presidency be zoned to the South cannot be achieved without the support of the North and vice versa. Governor Diri spoke on Thursday when a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant and Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed, visited him in Government House, Yenagoa. The Bayelsa governor urged PDP members to collectively work for the success of the party in next year’s presidential election. Diri noted that as an opposition party, what should be paramount is how to wrest power from the ruling party, which he said had lost grip of governance ...

Apr282022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Gov Diri Orders Manhunt For APC Chieftain’s Killers *Dissolves Community Leadership Over Arson

News Feature

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has directed the police in the state to fish out killers of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Sunday Frank-Oputu. Mr. Frank-Oputu was assassinated by yet to be identified gunmen on Tuesday night at his Yenagoa residence. Governor Diri, who condemned the killing during the 73rd state executive council meeting in Government House, Yenagoa, on Wednesday, described the incident as most unfortunate and unacceptable. A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Daniel Alabrah, quoted him as calling on politicians to play politics devoid of violence. He assured that those behind the dastardly act will be unmasked and made to face the wrath of the law. He expressed his condolences and that of the government to the im...