2027: Tinubu’s re-election will facilitate restructuring – Says Diri
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Bayelsa Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has backed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election bid, saying it represents the best opportunity for the Niger Delta region to actualise its dream of a restructured federation, The Nation Newspapers reported.
Diri said President Tinubu had accomplished what other leaders failed to achieve, particularly with regard to state policing, which he said had raised hopes of deeper fundamental reforms if the President was re-elected.
Diri, who spoke yesterday during the State Working Committee Retreat of the City Boy Movement (CBM) in Yenagoa, urged its members to work with the structures of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state and at the national level.
The Bayelsa governor described the movement as strategic and advised it to go beyond social media advocacy to grassroots mobilisation.
Explaining why he pitched his tent with the APC, Diri recalled how President Tinubu supported the state’s development by approving the construction of the second phase of the Nembe-Brass road and granting waivers for the state’s imported gas turbines, stressing that the President deserved the support of the people of Bayelsa.
He also restated his position on a restructured Nigeria, saying democracy thrives only when there is justice and fairness and that, given his antecedents, Tinubu was the right man to restructure Nigeria.
His words: “I am an advocate of restructuring, and President Tinubu is doing things that people had not succeeded in doing, such as state policing.
“For us in Bayelsa, we want to control our resources and pay tax to the centre, and I believe that if we must achieve that, this President is one we must follow. We have seen a President who is stable and capable. Let us allow him to complete his second term.”
Bayelsa State APC chairman, Warman Ogoriba, thanked Diri for his support for the party, saying the APC had decided to be strategic rather than join issues with people or other parties.
