BAYELSA GUBER: SAMSON SIASIA LEADS EX-INTERNATIONALS TO YENAGOA FOR DIRI
...As Former Stars Tackle Bayelsa Lawmakers, Commissioners
By Patrick Ndubuisi
Super Eagles legend, Samson Siasia says some Ex-internationals will storm Yenagoa in the coming days for a novelty match against a selected team comprising of members of the State House of Assembly and members of the State Cabinet.
According to the former Super Eagles and Olympic team Coach, the game is to drive more support for the Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, whom he said has performed excellently in sports development.
Coach Siasia who is the Technical Adviser to the Governor on Sports Development, disclosed this in Yenagoa recently.
The World Cup Coach said the the sports sector in the state has witnessed a massive facelift, as athletes from Bayelsa are emerging victorious in various sporting competitions, hence, the need to ensure his reelection for another four years.
He said, “We trying to do something like a novelty game with ex-players and the Commissioners and the Lawmakers from Bayelsa State, to set up a team that will play against us, to support the coming back of our Governor, Senator Douye Diri, and that will be a great event to showcase him as a sports person and what he has done for sports in Bayelsa State.”
