A Non-Governmental Organisation, the Diaspora 4 Diri (D4D) has thrown its weight behind the re-election of Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, saying he is the best man for the job.
Chief Executive Officer of African Tide Association (ATA), Dr Rosalyn Dressman said that the cardinal focus of the D4D was to campaign massively for Diri’s second tenure by raising funds privately to touch the rural areas and other places by providing some social amenities to the people.
During the group’s courtesy visit to the Governor’s Political Adviser, Mr Collins Cocodia in Yenagoa, the state capital, on Friday, Dressman explained that government alone could not do everything for the people, adding that the group would engage in the “provision of sanitary towels, free medical care, provision of toilet facilities and empowerment of small scale businesses”.
The Bayelsa State Diaspora Focal Point Officer said the courtesy visit was also in recognition of the responsibilities of the Political Adviser’s Office as the engine room of the governor’s political matters.
Dressman said that D4D was ATA’s offshoot, created for the sole objective of campaigning for Diri’s second tenure through strategic grassroots mobilisation.
Cocodia lauded D4D’s ideals and urged it to be focused and not allow themselves to be manipulated or compromised.
He acknowledged as alien, the style of campaign the group had chosen to embark on for Diri’s second tenure bid, pointing out that expansion of the group membership would get things easier for it.
He hinted that synergy with some relevant ministries such as Information and Works and Infrastructure and other sister NGOs would go a long way to actualising the group’s objectives.
He called for accurate and factual campaign strategies, stressing that “giving the public wrong information about Governor’s performance would not be tantamount to the objective of the group”.
Cocodia urged the group’s International Coordinator to bring her wealth of experience to bear on the group’s stated objectives.
