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— Says Constituency Projects Spread Across Southern Ijaw, Warns Against “Opposition From Within” High Chief Abaye Ambaiowei, a critical stakeholder in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has defended the performance of the member representing Southern Ijaw Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Engr. Rodney Ebikebina…
“We are ready as a people to continue to contribute so significantly to the national treasury, and to ensure that our part of the country is peaceful, so that we can be at peace and we can continue to benefit, so that the entire country can benefit.”
“We must understand what is at stake. If we fail to act together, others will decide our future without us. We will live with their decisions instead of helping shape them. The time to organise is now. Our relevance, resources, dignity and shared future depend on what we do today.”
The Bayelsa State chapter of Diri/Akpe Believers has paid a courtesy and familiarisation visit to the State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Warman Weri Ogoriba, at the party’s secretariat in Yenagoa. Speaking during the visit, the Director-General of the group, Hon. Douyi Willy, congratulated Hon. Ogoriba on his emergence as the APC…
By EMTV News The Member representing Southern Ijaw Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Engr. Rodney Ebikebina Ambaiowei, has commenced the renovation and rehabilitation of dilapidated secondary school facilities in three communities across Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The ongoing interventions cover secondary school buildings in Oweikorogha and Peremabiri, as…
“If there was proper fiscal federalism, like in the First Republic, where you keep 50 per cent of what you have, the governors of the South-South would not be begging anybody to come and do federal roads.”
The Diri/Akpe Believers indeed believe in all the candidates that His Excellency and the party have given to us. It is our duty to also support all our candidates, which are the candidates of the All Progressives Congress, from the Senate, the House of Representatives, Southern Ijaw Constituencies 1, 2, 3 and 4, down to the upcoming local government chairmanship election.”
The gathering of Ijaw leaders and INC stakeholders is expected to further the reconciliation process, reposition the foremost socio-cultural organisation of the Ijaw people and foster greater unity within the Ijaw nation.
“The lesson from Osun is simple. Parties may nominate candidates, but the people decide who leads them.
Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has said he made no mistake in nominating Dr. Peter Akpe as his deputy, describing him as a “square peg in a square hole.” Diri stated this on Sunday at a grand reception organised in honour of Akpe by his Ebedebiri community in Sagbama Local Government Area of…
