{"id":3800,"date":"2025-01-19T17:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T17:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=3800"},"modified":"2025-01-19T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T17:33:10","slug":"how-i-turned-down-rituals-offer-to-become-governor-diri-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/01\/19\/how-i-turned-down-rituals-offer-to-become-governor-diri-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Turned Down Rituals Offer To Become Governor \u2014 Diri Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mycase_reader\">\n<div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mycase4_reader\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Douye Diri, the Bayelsa Governor, has claimed his absolute faith in God earned him the sobriquet \u2018Miracle Governor.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>But Diri claimed that he turned down the ritual offer.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Diri told the crowd at the gathering that the senior citizen flew in some marabouts from Senegal to perform the rituals.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised the need for politicians to learn from his experience and put their trust in God rather than in man<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_3_host\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &nbsp; Douye Diri, the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}