Bayelsa APC Endorses President TInubu

 

The Bayelsa State Chapter of all the All  Progressives Congress, has endorsed President Bola TInubu as their Presidential Candidate come 2027.

Rising  from an elaborate stakeholders meeting in Yenagoa on Tuesday,  Dr. Dennis Otiotio, the state chairman of the party, disclosed that the unanimous decision came because it was all agreed that the President  Bola TInubu has done a lot for the people of the state.

He said that the president has given so many appointments to the people of the state maintaining that they were  grateful  to Mr President for the Coastal road that has made Bayelsa State  to be connected to other parts of the country.

Stating that other infrastructural projects  are ongoing, Otiotio disclosed that " we are
grateful to Mr President for appointing our Sons and Daughters into principal positions like Samuel Ogbuku, Heineken Lokpobiri, Dudi Walson Jack, Prince Ebitimi Angbare among many others, including  my humble self.

He thanked the national leadership of the party for coming to Bayelsa State adding that "it shows the importance the national leadership attaches to the  APC Bayelsa State.

The chairman also  thanked all the stakeholders of the party whom he said have abandoned everything to support Mr President and other National Assembly members  adding  " that show that we are committed. We are together working to ensure victory for the party.

He  particularly thank Samuel Ogbuku the managing director of Niger Delta Development Commission and Timipre Sylva  former Minister for Petroleum Resources for always supporting the party in the state.

Also speaking, Samuel Ogbuku the managing director of Niger Delta Development Commission in his remarks  thanked all that made themselves available for the reconciliatory meeting adding  that people were assuming that the party was in disarray.

He said :"Today is a very a great day  and I believe that they national working committee of APC has seen that the party is not in disarray. And we are ready for 2027.

"The reconcilation committee has done a very good job and I'm aware that the state working committee allowed the committee to do  a very good job. They finish their work and  called for a stakeholders meeting to ensure that everybody attends the meeting.

"I want to thank the chairman who has stood irrespective of various challenges  he has  had.Today I, can see  APC members, who are very hungry for victory.

"We have done it before and I know that we can always do it again because it is something that we are used to doing; winning.

"I want to assure you that APC in Bayelsa State has  resolved to ensure that we all bury our differences to ensure that come 2027, we will also reciprocate the gesture which Mr President has given to the people of Bayelsa State.

He  added that Because Bayelsa State has benefited greatly from Mr President's magninamyty. "He gave us this position so that we can use  the positions to also spread the good news of "Renewed Hope" and ensure that we renew the hope of our followers and  the hope of the people of Niger Delta using these offices. And I can assure you,  that those  that  Mr President has given these responsibilities in Bayelsa State,  will not disappoint you. I want to believe that  to the  Minister of Petroleum Resources is also doing well because the price of Crude Oil has also gone up.

"He is complementing the effort of Mr President.  We have assured me President that we will use our energy and  our  resources to ensure that  we will deliver Bayelsa to APC come 2027 because we believe anything short of that will be termed as ingratitude."

In his remarks, Chief Timipre Sylva, former Minister of Petroleum Resources, said he was expecting all to be at the meeting so that the national body of the party will deal the unity but regretted that some people were absent.

He disagree with people saying the APC Bayelsa State didn't do well in 2023 adding that the party did its 25 unlike other states.

He said:" I thought that everyone would have been here so that the national working committee would seal the  unity of the party, but unfortunately some of our people are not here.

"When some people say that we didn't perform well in 2023, I disagree. We did very well.  We were  not in the category of those states that could not even produce 25%.

"And today, we are more ready than ever before to do more. The only thing this party has lacked in Bayelsa State is support from the national.

"I want to assure you that with the  right support, nobody in Bayelsa State can stand any election with APC. 2027 is already a done deal as long as we have the support and commitment from you the national."

Speaking earlier, the National Chairman of the party, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda,  represented by the APC Deputy National Chairman, South, Chief Emma Eneukwu, stated that President Tinubu was on the move to take   the country to a greater height.

The national chairman valso revealed that more governors in the country will join the party ahead of the 2027 general election adding that President Tinubu has done well the reason why more governors and Senators abandoned their parties to  joined APC.

“Our doors are still open, more governors are still moving in to our party. More personalities are still moving in, senators, members of the House of representatives,  are coming in because of the caliber, integrity and the output of the person we have as  president.

“Other people who are running around trying to challenge the president in the 2027 election, but of course you know, when you have a lion and other small animals are barking, the lion doesn’t even take notice of them, he goes about his duties properly, that is what the president is doing.

“It is expected that dogs will bark, it is  expected that opposition will speak and rise, but it is we are assured that we have a product that even a blind man in this country will support overwhelmingly.

“I am very happy with the South South geopolitical zone, because all the governors that were in the other Political parties before have seen the quality of the character of the president and the person we are presenting and marketing to return as the President of the Federal republic.

"Because of what they saw in Mr President, they have all abandoned their own political parties, and joined our great party, so that they can put hands together to move Nigeria forward, and that is very commendable.

“From the South East, we use the South South as an example, because all the governors are very realistic and  understanding, they have moved on abandoning their parties, just to make sure that their goal of making Nigeria a greater country is achieved.

“They are leaving their parties to come to APC to support Mr President in 2027 to record an overwhelming victory, so that as we go into 2027, governance will be easier.

“The President is not afraid; he takes the bull by the horn, what others do not have the political will to embark on, he goes about it and he achieves results, this president is on the move to take Nigeria to a greater height.”