President Muhammadu Buhari, hosting governor Duoye Diri of Bayelsa State on courtesy visit at the State House, Abuja, promised that he will address three major requests made by the Bayelsa State Governor, with “promptness and immediacy.”
President Buhari emphasised stressed the need for immediate response to the Governor’s demands for Bayelsa State. According to the President, “Given the period we are in, I know most of you are in the field campaigning. I will respond to your requests as quickly as possible.”
Governor Diri, accompanied on the visit by his immediate predecessor, Senator Seriake Dickson, His Royal Majesty, King Alfred Diete-Spiff, and the Chairman of the State’s Council of Traditional Rulers, His Royal Majesty, King Bubaraye Dakolo, made request for three critical things from the President.
The governor demanded the Federal Government to take over the Bayelsa State Medical University, now that government is setting up medical hospitals in the Geopolitical Zones; a speedy completion of three Federal roads in each of the Senatorial Districts; and the restoration of the Oil Mining Licence, “OML 46” to Bayelsa State, which he said was unjustly revoked and awarded to a private company.
Governor Diri said that OML 46 is “emotional” to Bayelsans, which he said, possessed the technical and financial capacity to manage the oil well.