Bayelsa Governor Douye Diri has said that former military dictator, Sani Abacha, remains a hero to the people of the state following his decision to create the state 25 years ago on October 1, 1996.
He stated this
during a thanksgiving service on Nigeria’s 61st independence and Bayelsa 25th
anniversary at the King of Glory Chapel in Government House, Yenagoa.
In eulogizing
Abacha, the Governor said;
“Let me use
this medium to thank one man. He may not be popular in Nigeria but to me and
all of us Bayelsans, we see him as a great man, a hero. The man who by the
stroke of the pen signed the creation of Bayelsa State. I am talking about the
late General Sani Abacha.
We acknowledge
him as a state and people. By his singular assent, he created this state with
just eight local government areas, which was less than the constitutional
requirements.”
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