The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed confidence that the party has all it takes to win the Nov.11 Bayelsa governorship election.
Ganduje stated this in Yenagoa on Friday when he inaugurated the National APC Campaign Council for the Nov. 11 governorship election, headed by Gov. Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State.
He said that the APC governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, as a former governor and minister, was conversant with the workings in government and would be able to offer the state the needed leadership and bring about development.
He urged the campaign council to be disciplined and focused to win the election and ensure that the state was governed by the APC after the election.
“Our candidate, was a former governor of Bayelsa for one term, but he was not given the chance in the nomination not that he was defeated, he was Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and therefore, being a governor before, being a minister before, he has now identified a six point agenda for the development of Bayelsa, he has been able to produce a blueprint for this agenda.
“He has been able to develop a strategy for the implementation of the blueprint, he is conversant with the workings of the Federal Government.
“He is conversant with the workings of the state government, so he will be able to build a synergy between the Federal Government and the Bayelsa state government so that he can take this state to a much higher level.
“We have to believe in him, he has knowledge, he knows the environment, he knows the character and the implementors, therefore he knows how to coordinate for his six point agenda,” Ganduje said.
He added:“Our national campaign council, we have selected competent people, with experience, who know what it takes to win election, to win election, you need to be proactive, you need to be organized, you need to be disciplined.
” You need to follow the electoral laws, you need to know the security issues, you need to know how to monitor and how to administer voting system.
“So that you don’t give room that you are rigged out, you must invigilate, you must supervise, in election day, you must be up and down, put your ears and nose in the polling units.
“The team that we have put together, that will work with the local team in Bayelsa will be able to win the election, come Nov. 11.”
