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