The Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has declared
that his government is not a weak one, warning that nobody should take laws
into their hands under any guise.
The Governor who also stated that any form of lawlessness
will not be condoned in the state accused the National Chairman of All
Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole and the Minister of State for
Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva of creating the post Supreme Court Judgement’s
violence that led to the destruction of key Peoples’Democratic Party (PDP)
faithful property in the state.
Diri mentioned this yesterday during the inspection visit to
some of the property destroyed during the protest that erupted in the state
after the Supreme Court invalidated the election of the former governor-elect,
Chief David Lyon and deputy, Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo and declared
Senator Douye Diri and Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo as the governor and deputy governor
respectively for the state.
The governor visited the destroyed property, including the
home of the immediate past governor, Seriake Dickson, Steve Azaiki public
library, PDP Secretariat, Governor Diri’s private home, radio Bayelsa and other
property destroyed during the protest.
He said: “Because of what the APC national chairman said in
Abuja where he declared that the Supreme Court which is the apex Court in the
land, having giving the ruling, that it will not stand, and declared that there
will be no governor in Bayelsa state, that was what ignited protest back home
here.
“APC is always associated with violence, you recalled that
two days to my election, I went to campaign in Nembe local government, and we
were attacked just to go and campaign, and we lost about 20 of our party
faithful, and here on the 13th February, after the apex Court had given their
Judgement, PDP faithful were visited on their own property.
“Radio Bayelsa is the public property of Bayelsa state, so
assuming the APC were governors, wouldn’t they use the same radio Bayelsa, the
judiciary is the property of the Bayelsa state, assuming they were governors,
wouldn’t they go to Court, and then they now picked PDP strong supporters and
faithful, they visited Steve Azaiki library, when you see the level of
destruction there, you begin to wonder, even at war, there are certain places
that are marked as sacred, Churches, schools, libraries are not touched.
“But you begin to wonder if these people are from the Stone
Age, a library was touched to that level, I am short of weeping and crying for
our state, Bayelsa.
“If we value these projects, we are talking of millions of
naira, money that we would ordinarily use for development and for the
empowerment of our youths and our women, scarce resources that we don’t have
now, we need to now cut out for radio Bayelsa to operate, for judiciary to
operate and of course for others whose property were damaged.”
“Even after I have been sworn-in, the Minister of state for
Petroleum, who is the leader of APC in the state, after making a statement that
was very suspicious to most of us, when he called for calm, declared that the
governor of Bayelsa state is illegitimate, and when a man who is occupying such
an exalted position make such a statement, what do you expect from the
followers, it’s the damages we have seen,” he said.
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