Stakeholders of Sagbama local government area have passed a vote of confidence on the Governor of Bayelsa state, Hon. Seriake Dickson, in view of the positive impact his administration had made on the overall development of the state.
Speaking during a meeting of the first Sagbama local government area Stakeholders Forum at Sagbama, headquarters of the council, the chairman of the forum, Engr Charles Dorgu, advanced reasons that informed their decision to rally round Governor Dickson to enable him consolidate on his good works in the restoration and transformation of the state.
Dorgu said the restoration government had engendered peace and stability, construction and rehabilitation of dilapidated facilities, construction of roads, bridges, the first flyover, since the creation of the state, schools and general hospitals across the local government areas of the state.
He also recounted the award of scholarships, provision of housing infrastructure, commercialisation of landed property through the establishment of the Bayelsa geographical information System (BGIS), provision of the necessary commercial and industrial infrastructure to assist private entrepreneurship in the local government areas among others.
In their various speeches, member representing Sagbama/Ekeremor federal constituency, Dr. Stella Dorgu, Majority Leader of the House of Assembly, Dr. Peter Akpe, Chief Anderson Eseimokumoh, Hon. Fyneman Wilson, former Treasurer of the PDP, Chief Felix Omemu, underscored the need to unite and forge a formidable bloc towards giving Governor Dickson total support, come 2016.
They said Dickson’s emergence as governor was a great opportunity and divine providence, noting that the collective support of the people was required to return the governor for a second term.
