Be a Father to All, Amagbein Urges Diri, as He Hails Tinubu’s Appointment

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Be a Father to All, Amagbein Urges Diri, as He Hails Tinubu’s Appointment

 By Niger Delta Voice Reporters, Bayelsa Correspondent
November 10, 2025

Like the voice of one crying for unity in the creeks, former Niger Delta militant leader, Endurance Amagbein, has called on Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State to spread his arms wide like a father hen — to shelter all, heal divisions, and sow seeds of peace within the state’s chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Amagbein made the appeal in Abuja while felicitating with Governor Diri over his recent appointment by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as South-South Coordinator of the National Steering Committee for the Renewed Hope Ward Development Programme.

Describing the appointment as “a square peg in a square hole,” Amagbein — fondly known as Adaka Boro the Second — said President Tinubu had once again shown that “a good fisherman knows the right net for each river.”

He praised the president for his wisdom in entrusting the Bayelsa governor with such a crucial role, which he said would open new frontiers for grassroots development, job creation, and peacebuilding across the Niger Delta.

“This appointment is not just a feather in Diri’s cap; it is a torch to light the dark corners of our rural communities,” Amagbein said poetically. “Governor Diri has always been a man whose heart beats for the common people, choosing development over division and service over politics.”

He recalled Diri’s devotion to completing the three senatorial roads linking every community in Bayelsa, describing it as “a dream that will turn isolated villages into connected families.”

Amagbein further lauded Diri for formally joining the APC, saying it was a move that could “turn old foes into friends and broken bridges into highways of progress.” He urged the governor to use his new political home to reconcile all aggrieved members of the party, just as he once mended fences in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“In 2019 and 2020, the PDP was like a cracked pot leaking unity. But when Diri took charge, he patched the holes with humility and dialogue. Even those who swore never to return came back singing his praises,” Amagbein reminisced.

He lamented that the Bayelsa APC had long been “a house divided against itself,” plagued by parallel leaderships, court cases, and internal strife that had stunted the party’s growth.

“Now that Governor Diri has joined the fold,” Amagbein declared, “he should call a roundtable of reconciliation. When brothers sit to settle, even the gods listen. Only unity can open the floodgates of true development.”

He concluded with a note of wisdom:

“Politics without peace is like a boat without a paddle — it may float, but it cannot move forward. Governor Diri has the paddle, and Tinubu has given him the river. It is time to row for the people.