Governor Seriake Dickson to confer honorary citizenship on MBGN winner

Winner of the 2013 edition of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria Pageant has a rare honour awaiting her. When she emerges on Saturday, she will automatically become a ‘citizen’ of Bayelsa State. The State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson, on Wednesday, promised to confer honorary citizenship of the state on the winner while receiving the contestants of the pageant led by the Vice President of the Silverbird Group, Mr. Guy Murray Bruce,  at Government House, Yenagoa.
Ahead of the grand finale, holding in the city today, the governor tasked the contestants on the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS virus. He urged them to promote awareness on the HIV/AIDS scourge. A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, indicates that it is in demonstration of Dickson’s commitment to the promotion of the tourism sector of the economy that the governor would present the certificate of honorary citizenship to the winner.
Commending the organisers of the programme for taking time to acquaint the contestants with major historical sites in the state, the governor said, “I’m particularly delighted that the organisers took time to take you round some of the very historic places in the state. Whoever emerges as the 2013 Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria in this particular contest on this great soil of Bayelsa, the Glory of all Lands and the capital of the Ijaw nation, that person will be an honorary citizen of this state and will be entitled to all that comes with that honorary citizenship status.”

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