I Rejected Ritual Offer To Become Gov, Paid $10,000 Compensation – Diri

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has revealed how his faith in God earned him the governorship seat instead of fetish sacrifices.

According to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah, on Saturday, the governor disclosed this while speaking at the Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area annual day of thanksgiving held at Sampou, his community, on Friday.

He revealed that in 2020, a senior citizen of Nigeria invited him to Abuja and advised him to perform certain rituals if he wanted to be a governor but he turned down the offer.

Diri said as of that time, he had challenged the declaration of the All Progressives Congress candidate in the November 2019 governorship election as winner, and the matter was then pending at the Supreme Court.

The governor told the gathering that the senior citizen flew in some marabouts from Senegal to perform the rituals, adding that when he rejected the offer, the man demanded a refund of the money spent to transport them into the country.

Diri said he had to pay the senior citizen a sum of $10,000.

He explained that his unshaken faith in God made him decline the advice to look elsewhere for help, saying God, against all odds, proved that He is always faithful.

“When the Supreme Court’s pronouncement came, the man was shocked and could not call me. Sadly, he passed on after some time.

“The story I have narrated was witnessed by my deputy and a friend in Abuja as both of them accompanied me to visit the senior citizen,” the governor stated.

Source: Punch

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