ODAHIEKWU OGUNDE, Yenagoa
Youths coalition in Bayelsa State has commended the impressive and silent achievements being recorded by Governor Douye Diri in the areas of infrastructures and youths empowerment in different parts of the state.
The coalition, under the auspices of the Bayelsa Eminent Youth Leaders Forum (BEYLEF), made the commendation on Tuesday after a tour of some of the road projects executed by the Diri administration in the state.
BEYLEF said some of the projects toured were the popular Elebele Bridge, the 4.58km Igbedi road project, the Nembe Unity Bridge, Ultra-Modern Transport terminal, Onopa bridge, the ongoing Gloryland drive, the AIT link road and the 21st Century Media complex.
The coalition declared that the projects were commendable and beneficial to the people of the state.
Chief Convener, BEYLEF, Comrade Ebilade Ekerefe, said during a media interactive session at the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bayelsa State Chapter, Yenagoa, that the coalition was made up of patriotic and people-centred mass movement in the state.
Ekerefe said the decision to undertake an independent, self-funded and assessment of developmental projects was based on the need to have first-hand​ information on the projects executed and those still under construction by the present administration in the state.
He noted that despite the issue of paucity funds facing states, the state under the administration of Governor Douye Diri had become a huge construction site and with the inauguration of projects which the state would witness in the next few days, Bayelsa people would experience the harvests of life transforming projects.
He said the coalition also passed a vote of confidence in Governor Diri and his Deputy, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo after tth critical assessment of the silent infrastructural revolution taking place in the state and ​ other sectors of the economy in spite of dwindling finances.
He said the charismatic disposition and glowing leadership attributes had endeared them to the youth community and were ready to continue to partner the state government for prosperity and development of the state.
Ekerefe also described the last two years of Diri as one that had brought peace and harmony among stakeholders despite different political infractions, saying that the state had witnessed an unprecedented cooperation and political harmony.