President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday pledged that he will address three major requests tabled by Senator Duoye Diri, the Governor of Bayelsa State, with promptness and immediacy.

Responding to an address by the Governor during his visit to the State House in Abuja, President Buhari stressed the need for immediate response to the Governor.

This is according to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Mr. Garba Shehu

Governor Diri, who was accompanied on the visit by his immediate predecessor, Senator Seriake Dickson, His Royal Majesty, King Alfred Diete-Spiff and the Chairman of the State’s Council of Traditional Rulers, His Royal Majesty, King Bubaraye Dakolo, asked for three important things from the President.

He said he wanted the Federal Government to take over the Bayelsa State Medical University, now that government is setting up medical hospitals in the Geopolitical Zones; a speedy completion of three Federal roads in each of the Senatorial Districts; and the restoration of the Oil Mining Licence, “OML 46” to Bayelsa State, which he said was unjustly revoked and awarded to a private company. 

The governor said the OML 46, is emotional to Bayelsans, whom he said, possessed the technical and financial capacity to manage the oil well.

Governor Diri congratulated the President on the nation’s attainment of 62nd Anniversary which coincides with Bayelsa’s 30th year of creation, and urged the President to continue with his balanced approach to issues of national development.