How I Turned Down Rituals Offer To Become Governor — Diri Reveals

Douye Diri, the Bayelsa Governor, has claimed his absolute faith in God earned him the sobriquet ‘Miracle Governor.’

Speaking during the KOLGA (Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area) Annual Day of Thanksgiving held in Sampou, his community, Diri revealed how in 2020, a senior citizen invited him to Abuja and advised him to perform certain rituals to be governor.

But Diri claimed that he turned down the rituals offer.

He had challenged the declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 2019 governorship poll as winner and the matter was then pending at the Supreme Court.

Diri told the crowd at the gathering that the senior citizen flew in some marabouts from Senegal to perform the rituals.

He stated that when he bluntly rejected the offer, the man demanded a refund of the money spent to transport them into the country and he had to pay $10,000.

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

He emphasised the need for politicians to learn from his experience and put their trust in God rather than in man