Lauds
Bayelsa’s Transformation In 20 Years
Former
President Olusegun Obasanjo has identified peace and stable security as the
panacea for the country’s development and progress.Obasanjo said this yesterday
during a visit to Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, to inaugurate completed
projects of the Governor Seriake Dickson government. He also visited the
state’s traditional rulers council.
The former
President who also inaugurated the Bayelsa State Drug Distribution Company, the
state ultra-modern Diagnostic Centre and other projects expressed shock over
the rapid transformation, which Governor Dickson had brought to the state
within six years.He commended Dickson for the relative peace he had maintained
in the state since his six years on the saddle and urged other states in the country
to emulate him.
“If one
state is peaceful, secured and safe in Nigeria, it is an example to others and
it goes a long way because the aggregate peacefulness, and security is what
makes for peace, security and stability of our country.
“You called
me a Bayelsan and I ought to be. I said to the governor that any good man must
feel proud to be called a Bayelsan, because here, you have seen real
transformation. If there is a place where you can say, come and see
transformation taking place, this is one place in the country,” he stated.He,
therefore, suggested that the younger generation should be accommodated in the
nation’s political leadership because “although they are future leaders,
tomorrow might not come.
“We have to
make allowance for them because they are not only the leaders of tomorrow.
Their leadership must start from today because if we leave them till tomorrow,
they will never be left waiting for tomorrow that may never come. Today must be
their time; let us accommodate them, let us make room for them and carry them
along.”
Meanwhile,
three former Ministers of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana, Labaran Maku and John
Odey, have said that information dissemination was key to democracy.
They said
this at the inauguration of Bayelsa Information House in Yenagoa, as part of
the activities to commemorate the sixth anniversary of Governor Dickson.
Other
prominent stakeholders including media executives, editors, columnists and top
government functionaries also witnessed the unveiling of the house, which has
been described as one of the best in the country.
The
ex-ministers, who were led to the edifice by Governor Dickson, his wife, Rachel
and the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson,
commended the government for attaching importance to information
dissemination.Gana, who unveiled the building, said it was a great honour to
perform the ceremony, adding that the building would be a source of
enlightenment and education for the people of Bayalsa and Nigerians.
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