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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that if Governor Douye Diri, the People's Democratic Party's candidate, had not won, he would have moved his mother to Abuja.
Jonathan said this on Friday during his visit to Diri in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State.
He said, “I was saying before this election that if Diri had lost this election, I would have relocated my mother to Abuja. We don’t want to go into an unnecessary crisis in the state. The results have been declared, and we believe the election was conducted. We believe the governor won the election, and we plead that people should accept it and work with the governor. Let all of us support him so that the state can move ahead.
“There should be nothing that will push the state backward. We should think about the development of the state starting from the issue of peace and security in the state, where within this last period, three years plus, there have been significant improvements in terms of cultism, kidnapping, and so on and so forth,” he said.
The former president praised Diri's efforts to tackle insecurity, saying the governor's re-election means the state would be safer. He said if Douye had lost, the gains made in curbing insecurity would have been lost.
“So, we’ve passed through hell in this state, and we’ve seen a little light at the end of the tunnel. So, people should calm down and allow Diri to focus on governance so that he will be able to propel this state forward so that we will benefit as citizens of the state.”
