An haifeshi a karamar hukumar Sagbama ta jihar Bayelsa, an zabe shi a matsayin dan majalisar dattawa me wakiltar Bayelsa ta yamma a karkashi jam'iyar AD daga 29 ga watan Mayu 1999 zuwa 29 ga watan Mayu 2003. Bayan hawan kujerar majalisar dattawa a shekarar 1999 a sanya shi cikin kwamitin man fetur, muhalli, Niger Delta da kuma wasanni. A watan Disenba 2002 an samu jita jitan cewa ya Diffa yanaso a maimaita zabe masu hanu da shuni na jam'iyar PDP tun kafin barin jam'iyar AD. http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/n/nigeria/nigerialeg2.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20091118151316/http://www.nigeriacongress.org/assembly/committees1.htm