The Acting president, Yemi Osinbajo has arrived Bayelsa and is meeting
with government officials and traditional rulers in the state.
Part of the aim of the meeting is to discuss on how to achieve peace, that
would lead to the improvement in crude oil production and resolve the
youth restiveness in the oil rich region.
This is the first visit of Professor Osinbajo as an acting President, who
is leading a high level delegation of the Federal Government, in an
interaction with traditional rulers of the region.
The first time Professor Osinbajo held a similar meeting was at Gbaramatu
Kingdom in Delta State, where he told the people that the Federal
Government feels the pain of the Niger Delta region.
The Bayelsa Government on Thursday released a statement saying it is
looking forward to receiving Professor Yemi Osinbajo, when he visits the
state, as part of his tour to some states in the Niger Delta region.
The state government urged residents to come out en masse to welcome the
nation’s number two citizen.
It also assured the acting President of the hospitality of people of the
state and urged him to use the occasion of his visit to experience same
for himself.
Furthermore, it called on him to access critical areas of the state that
need prompt intervention by the Federal Government, stating that Bayelsa
is the epic centre of all the issues as the home land of the Ijaw ethnic
nationality.