Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s reappointment of the Central Bank Governor (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, shows that the president appreciates competence, hard work and meant well for the economy of the nation.

Dickson, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media Relations, Mr Fidelis Soriwei, commended the president for the decision to re-appoint Emefiele after diligence service during his first tenure.

The governor said that it was encouraging and a display of leadership for the President who inherited Emefiele from the Jonathan administration in 2015 to retain him at the expiration of his first tenure.

He stressed that it was indeed important as the Chairman of the South South Governor’s Forum to praise the President’s efforts in an area where he is found to have done the right thing.

He said, “I wish to sincerely commend President Muhammadu Buhari for mustering the courage to reappoint the Governor of Central Bank, Mr. Godwin Emefiele for a second tenure as Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria.

“As the Chairman of the South South Governors Forum, I find it necessary to commend the President for appreciating a son of the South South and keeping faith in his competences as the Head of the CBN.

“It is a fact that the President’s action is worthy of commendation and it is indeed important that when the right thing is done it is appreciated irrespective of political divide. The zone is grateful to the President for this move.” (Daily Trust)