{"id":7609,"date":"2018-02-16T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T14:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7609"},"modified":"2018-02-16T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T14:02:23","slug":"obasanjo-excited-by-transformation-in-bayelsa-praises-dickson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7609","title":{"rendered":"Obasanjo excited by transformation in Bayelsa; praises Dickson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nigeria\u2019s former President, Obasanjo Obasanjo, on Friday expressed shock over the rapid transformation which Governor Henry Seriake Dickson had brought on Bayelsa State within six years.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nHe therefore suggested that the younger generation should be accommodated in the nation\u2019s political leadership because \u201calthough they are future leaders, tomorrow might not come again.\u201d<\/span>
\nObasanjo spoke in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital during a courtesy visit on the traditional rulers council where he was conferred with automatic Bayelsa State citizenship and chieftaincy title.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nHe said, \u201cWe came here in 1998\/1999 and I have seen the rapid transformation. I commend all the people who have joined hands in building this state. When I see the transformation that is going on between 1998 and now, I doff my heart for this man called Dickson. When I came into Yenagoa, Jerry Gana told me, \u2018this governor is working hard\u2019 and I told him if he\u2019s not working hard, I won\u2019t be here.\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u201cYou call me a Bayelsan and I\u2019m proud to be a Bayelsan. Any good place like Bayelsa is a place to be. Here we\u2019re seeing real transformation. Any place where we are seeing transformation is a place to be.\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u201cI thank you governor Dickson for inviting me. Anybody who was here 20 years ago and the development that has taken place, will appreciate the money spent. Thank you governor Henry Seriake Dickson. You\u2019re making it easy for investors to come, to relax and to do business.<\/span>
\n\u201cIf you hear that I\u2019m coming here often, don\u2019t be surprised. One of the things that has struck me is the relative peace Dickson has brought in Bayelsa State. I don\u2019t know how you did it. May be we have to come for your tutelage.\u201d<\/span>
\nObasanjo also commended traditional rulers for assisting the Dickson\u2019s administration in bringing the relative security in Bayelsa State.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigeria\u2019s former President, Obasanjo Obasanjo, on Friday expressed shock over the rapid transformation which Governor Henry Seriake Dickson had brought on Bayelsa State within six years. He therefore suggested that the younger generation should be accommodated in the nation\u2019s political leadership because \u201calthough they are future leaders, tomorrow might not come again.\u201d Obasanjo spoke in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}