Former President Goodluck Jonathan said he would have relocated his mother to Abuja if Governor Douye Diri, candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP had lost.
Jonathan spoke on Friday when he visited Diri in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
“I was saying before this election that if Diri loses this election, I would have relocated my mother to Abuja.
“We don’t want to go into unnecessary crisis in the state. Results have been declared and we believe the election was conducted. We believe the governor won the election and we plead that people should accept it and work with the governor. Let all of us support him so that the state will move ahead.
“There should be nothing that will push the state backward. We should think about the development of the state starting from the issue of peace and security in the state which within this last period, three years plus, there are significant improvements in terms of cultism and kidnapping and so on and so forth,” he said.
The former president hailed Diri’s efforts at tackling insecurity, saying the governor’s re-election means the state would be a lot safer, Vanguard reported.
He said if Diri had lost, the gains made in curbing insecurity would have been lost.
Speaking on how his cousin was kidnapped and killed, Jonathan expressed optimism that with Diri returning as the governor of the state, the situation would soon be a thing of the past.
He said, “My cousin was kidnapped two times on one of those occasions, one of my cousins, Solo, was killed because they threw him into the river and he didn’t know how to swim,” he added.
