August 30 (THEWILL) – Ahead of the November 11 governorship election in Bayelsa State, renowned environmentalist and Field Officer, Friends of the Earth, Morris Alagoa, on Tuesday, threw his weight behind the reelection of Governor Douye Diri for a second term in office.
Alagoa, who supported and worked for the presidential ambition of Peter Obi as the Bayelsa State Coordinator, said he decided to bypass the Labour Party candidate in the State, Udengs Eradiri, and support Governor Diri because he has done so many good things that are not even in the public domain.
In a telephone chat with THEWILL, Alagoa said that he decided to support the incumbent Governor because, looking at the candidates for the governorship election in the State, he is the most qualified, adding that what “Diri is doing needs not to be truncated.”
He said, “I was not a member of the Labour Party before they appointed me the state coordinator and that job has been completed since with Nigeria Wayo, so life goes on.
“I was really traumatized after that election. I couldn’t listen to the radio for over two months because of the Wayo things that the Nigerian people did. I’m just trying to come back.
“I was with Douye Diri today and looking at the candidates that are available, I believe he is the one that we need to support because when anybody comes in now, what they will tell us is that they met empty treasury. So, this one that is already working with other arrangements that he has with development partners and other stakeholders, let him continue.
“He has done a lot of things that are not in the public domain and even those that are in the public domain he cannot be perfect but I think he is trying so we have to support him to continue.”
