Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri says former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan is now an internally displaced person as flood has taken over his residence in Otuoke, Ogbia local government area of the state.
According to Daily Trust Diri said this when he visited Otuoke the hometown of the former president Today.
He sympathized with Jonathan and people of the community, adding that efforts are on to cushion the effect of the flood on affected persons.
Part of his statement reads,
To our citizens, particularly in Ogbia local government, I came to see things for myself in Otuoke and to bring you hope. I came to also let you know that you are not alone in this trying times that we are all going through in our state.
We have put in place machinery that is going round the state in terms of relief materials and medicines. The Ministry of Health is fully mobilized for that and I am sure they will be here in no distant time.
Let me also use this opportunity to empathize with my leader, the former president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who has joined me as one of the IDPs because I was one of the first victims in my community
