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Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Seriake Dickson, on Tuesday asked religious and political leaders in the Northeast part of the country to double their efforts in addressing the security challenges in the region.
Dickson, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, expressed the views during the presentation of letter of appointment to Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubarkar Ibn Umar Garbai El-Kanemi, as the Chancellor of the state-owned Niger Delta University (NDU).
The governor, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Edmond Allison-Oguru, in the brief ceremony that was held in Abuja, justified his government’s choice of the Shehu of Borno, saying his impressive academic, moral and political profiles stood him out from the rest.
He, however, regretted that the security situation in the northeast prevented the ceremony from holding in the Shehu’s palace in Maiduguri. Borno is the hotbed of Boko Haram’s activities and is currently under a state of emergency.
Dickson added that the gesture would also help his government to build bridges of unity among the different sections of the country.
The governor appealed to some sections of the country and some highly placed politicians fanning the embers of ethnic and religious disunity to desist in the interest of the country’s unity.
