{"id":2659,"date":"2021-06-02T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T14:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2021-06-02T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T14:13:09","slug":"gov-douye-diri-to-bayelsans-dont-send-goodwill-messages-on-my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/02\/gov-douye-diri-to-bayelsans-dont-send-goodwill-messages-on-my-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov Douye Diri to Bayelsans: Dont Send Goodwill Messages on my Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2272\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2272 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/OIP-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Douye Diri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has advised his appointees to join him in prayers for God&#8217;s wisdom and direction to govern the state instead of spending money on congratulatory messages in the media or on celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Diri, who turns 62 on June 4, said in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, on Wednesday, that what he needed on his birthday was prayers to remain focused as the task ahead was enormous.<\/p>\n<p>He urged all his appointees to be patient and remain committed to delivering on their assignments as the time for celebration would come.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Diri explained that he was not against private individuals or corporate organisations congratulating him in the media but that state funds need not be channelled to such gestures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this time, what we need is to focus on the governance task on our hands. We also need prayers for God&#8217;s wisdom and direction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, I advise my appointees at all levels to join me in praying for wisdom to govern our state and to rightly deliver on our mandate. I&#8217;m not usually\u00a0 a birthday celebration person. Being governor has not changed that. My appointees as government officials need to know this too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Private individuals and corporate organisations are not under any obligation to congratulate me if they choose to but I&#8217;m against any gesture that would result in misuse of government funds,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has advised his appointees to join him in prayers for God&rsquo;s wisdom and direction to govern the state instead of spending money on congratulatory messages in the media or on celebration. Governor Diri, who turns 62 on June 4, said in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[553],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feature","tag-senator-douye-diri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}