Bayelsa poll: Diri pledges more projects if re-elected

…Commissions projects in all LGs

The Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri has continued his campaign for a second term in office in Yenagoa Local Government Area while promising to do more if reelected on November 11.

Diri began his campaign on Friday in Constituency 3 and ended in Constituency 2 with rallies at Okordia, Obunagha and Polaku where huge crowds greeted him.

His agenda include investments in sustainable security and peace building, economic development blueprint, physical infrastructure, environmental protection, housing, integrated health programmes and human capacity building.

Others are investments in agriculture, empowerment and poverty alleviation, technological innovation, sports development, tourism and entertainment, power, social empowerment as well as deepening transparency and accountability.

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As part of his campaigns, he has incorporated the inauguration of projects completed by his Prosperity Government and it was the same as he inaugurated projects at some stops.

He commissioned projects including roads, schools, health centres and town halls at Biseni, Okordia, Ogboloma and Akaibiri.

Speaking at Okordia, headquarters of Constituency 3 where all the wards gathered to receive him, he urged the youth to remain peaceful in their support for the party.

Diri said unlike the opposition that has urged their supporters to throw people who disagree with them into the sea, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) would remain peaceful before, during and after the polls.

At Obunagha, he urged the people to continue to support his administration and vote for continuity so that the government would can implement its developmental agenda for the betterment of the state.

At every rally, the governor takes time to call out appointees of his government to come up to the podium and greet their people.