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Aug142025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Amid defection rumours, PDP Inaugurates Diri Chair of Zoning Committee *It’s Huge Responsibility, Says Bayelsa Gov

Nigeria’s major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday, inaugurated its National Elective Convention Zoning Committee at the national headquarters in Abuja. The 46-member committee is headed by the Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, with his Zamfara and Plateau counterparts, Dauda Lawal and Barr. Caleb Mutfwang as vice chairman and secretary respectively. A statement issued by Diri’s spokesman, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted the Acting PDP National Chairman, Amb. Umar Damagum, who inaugurated the committee, as saying that it had the onerous task of repositioning the party to make it stronger. Damagum, who expressed confidence in the leadership of the committee, said the inauguration was the first step ahead of the party’s convention slated for Novemb...

Jun262025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

UGOCHINYERE CONGRATULATES AGBEDI ON EMERGENCE AS PDP CAUCUS LEADER IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Misc, News Feature

Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, the lawmaker representing Ideato North/South Federal Constituency of Imo State, has extended his heartfelt congratulations to Hon. Fred Agbedi on his emergence as the new Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caucus in the House of Representatives. Hon. Agbedi, a ranking member from Bayelsa State who chairs the House Committee on FCT Area Councils and Ancillary Matters, was elected late Wednesday during an emergency meeting of PDP lawmakers in the Green Chamber. In a statement issued shortly after the announcement, Hon. Ugochinyere, who also chairs the House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), described Agbedi’s emergence as a pivotal moment for the PDP’s resurgence in the National Assembly. “I congratulate my dear colleague and leade...

Jun232025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Ensure Release Of Abducted Judge, Bayelsa Gov Directs Security Commanders *’Why PDP, Diri Got ‘Kano’ Votes In Sagbama’

News Feature

Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has directed security commanders in the state to ensure that a Judge of the state high court, Justice Ebieyerin Omukoro, that was abducted by armed men on Saturday in Yenagoa is released without harm. Governor Diri disclosed this on Monday in Sagbama town during his ongoing local government thank-you tour to Sagbama Local Government Area. He also warned criminal elements and their sponsors to retrace their steps as there was no hiding place for them following the state government’s investment in closed circuit television cameras and other security gadgets. He said kidnappers of the Judge were caught on CCTV cameras and that investigation would unravel their identity. "From the minute I was informed about the high profile kidnap of ...

Mar272025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

YOU CAN’T HOLD A PRO WIKE RALLY IN BAYELSA…Gov Diri warns

News Feature

Governor of Bayelsa State, Sen. Douye Diri, has raised the alarm about a plot to breach the peace of the state,using a pro Wike " Mega Rally " as a ploy. Governor Diri, who warned that the state government would not condone any act that would disrupt the peace of the state, advised security commanders, youths, elders and traditional rulers to be on the alert. The Bayelsa governor spoke on the issue on Thursday at separate meetings with the Bayelsa Elders Council and at the 37th session of the state security council. He warned that a planned mega rally and inauguration of a group loyal to the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, was capable of igniting avoidable crisis in the state. Diri noted that a suspended member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), George Turn...

Nov172023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

INEC Presents Certificate Of Return To Bayelsa Gov, Deputy *I’ll Remain A Servant-Leader, Says Diri

News Feature, Politics

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Friday, presented the Certificate Of Return to winner of the November 11 off-cycle governorship election in Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, and his running mate, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo. Governor Diri and his deputy, Ewhrudjakpo, were the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the election that had 15 other contestants. A statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, said the INEC National Commissioner for Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Rivers states, Mrs. May Agbamuche-Mbu, presented the certificate to the duo at 11:11am at the state headquarters of the commission in Yenagoa. Mrs. Agbamuche-Mbu said presenting the Certificate of Return by the commission was a statutory provision in fulf...

Nov82023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa Poll: Diri Deserves Eight Years, Says Jonathan

News Feature

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that for the stability of Bayelsa State, Governor Douye Diri should be encouraged to complete a second term in office. Speaking at his Yenagoa residence on Tuesday when members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Bayelsa National Governorship Campaign Council alongside governors, former governors of the party and National Assembly members and other stakeholders paid him a visit, the former Nigerian leader said he is in touch with Governor Diri and his activities in the state. The party leaders visited the state for the grand finale of the Governor Douye Diri re-election campaign rally. Dr. Jonathan said Bayelsa has made progress in the area of security and infrastructural development under Diri. He expressed delight over the involve...

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...

Oct242023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

PDP TO TIMIPRE SYLVA: QUIT GOVERNORSHIP RACE NOW

News Feature, Politics

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Campaign Council in Bayelsa State has advised the disqualified candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 11 governorship election in the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, to honourably step down from the race as the odds were against him. Director-General of the campaign council, Dr. Mitema Obordor, gave the advice during the party’s Sagbama Local Government Area Constituency 3 rally at Agbere community in continuation of Governor Douye Diri’s re-election campaigns. Chief Obordor, who is also the House of Representatives member for the Ogbia Federal Constituency, said unlike the PDP ticket of Diri and Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, Sylva does not enjoy any level of acceptance across the state, which is pointer to his imm...

Apr262023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

APC Youth Leader, Others Defect To PDP As Thousands March For Diri’s Second Term

News Feature, Politics

Thousands of youths, on Wednesday, took to the major roads of Yenagoa in a solidarity walk in support of the re-election bid of Governor Douye Diri. The youths from the eight local government areas of the state walked a distance of more than 10 kilometres from the popular Tombia roundabout to the Peace Park opposite the Government House. A prominent APC youth leader in the state, Gifted Natus, also led scores of defectors to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as part of the re-election walk for the governor. Speaking on their behallf, Natus said they decided to join Governor Diri’s Prosperity Family because in the last three years under his watch, Bayelsa State has been politically stable and peaceful. He noted that the leadership of their former party dampened their hopes and ...

Apr122023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Nov 11 Poll: Diri Emerges PDP Governorship Candidate

Politics

Senator Douye Diri, Governor of Bayelsa State, has emerged candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 11, 2023 governorship election in the state. Senator Diri clinched the ticket on Wednesday with a total of 305 votes as sole aspirant of the party out of 313 votes cast during the primaries, which took place at the Dr. Gabriel Okara Cultural Centre in Yenagoa. Addressing the delegates and party stakeholders, chairman of the PDP Electoral Panel and Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, said Diri having satisfied the statutory requirements of the primaries was declared winner. In his remarks before the exercise, Senator Adeleke called for a peaceful conduct of the process in accordance with the party's constitution and relevant provisions of the const...