Guber Candidate To Champion Resource Control,Land Use Act Repeal

Ahead of the 2019 governorship polls in the oil rich Bayelsa State, the governorship standard bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Douye Diri has promised to re-champion the agitation for the control and management of mineral resources by states in Nigeria.
The gubernatorial elections of Bayelsa and Kogi states come up November 16th, 2019 amidst palpable apprehension of security challenges, defections and mistrust amongst politicians.
Diri who currently represents Bayelsa central senatorial district in the senate stated this Wednesday during an interactive session with journalists at the Earnest Ikoli press centre, Yenagoa, the state capital.
Reiterating his commitment to building a stable economy for the state the PDP candidate maintained that as governor he would create more job opportunities for Bayelsans and pay workers as and when due, stressing that the restoration government headed by governor Seriake Dickson has done well in the state.
While acknowledging that Bayelsa has received federal allocations which could have made the state better, Diri berated the revenue sharing formula in Nigeria, saying that 13% derivation of the nation falls short of tenable statistics in other federations, just as he criticized the federal government of being insensitive and inimical to the development of the Niger Delta states through anti-Niger Delta laws such as the land use act.