- Delta state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has urged members of the PDP to engage in issue based campaigns ahead of 2019
- The governor made the call at the inauguration of the Delta state PDP campaign council for the elections
- He expressed confidence that the PDP has successfully executed projects that will earn it victory in the 2019 polls
Delta state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has urged members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to engage in issue based campaigns ahead of the 2019 elections.
Governor Okowa made the call on Monday, December 10, at the inauguration of the Delta state PDP campaign council for the elections
The governor expressed confidence that the PDP has successfully executed projects that will earn it victory in the 2019 general elections.
Legit.ng gathered that the inauguration of the council was performed by the chairman of the party in the state, Barrister Kingsley Esiso. The ceremony which took place at Asaba was attended by chairman of the council, Professor Sam Oyovbaire and all the members.
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Governor Okowa said: “As we go into the campaign, it should be issue based, we are confident that there is a lot of achievements for us to campaign with which will earn us victory.
“Other persons may go out there to insult people and say what they do not know, don’t respond to such persons, tell the story of where we have been, where we are today and what we will do because, we have a lot of projects that if you are looking at projects to commission, we have a lot; we have commissioned several projects and there is a lot more to be commissioned.”
Governor Okowa who disclosed that the campaign should be concentrated at the unit levels, emphasised, “tell the truth to the people, if there are things you don’t understand, get information from the nearest person or put a call through because, we are not going to deceive our people, we must always tell the truth.”
“I believe that Delta state is a PDP state, I believe that we have enough projects to campaign with, so, those who are planning to rig the election should know that our votes must count,” he said while listing some of the achievements of his administration in the health sector, road construction, job creation, among others.
He congratulated members of the campaign council and admonished them to remain united, saying, “if you go into the campaign with one mind, there is nothing that can stop us, there is a need for total reconciliation in our wards and local government areas; the candidates must be humble, in whatever they do, they must be seen as driving the process of the campaign, there must be sincerity of purpose, we must be inclusive in all that we are doing.”
Chairman of the PDP in the state, Barrister Esiso had while inaugurating the campaign council, said, “we want grassroots based campaign, campaign at the unit levels; we must tell our people what Governor Okowa has done in the last three years and that Deltans believe in zoning; Delta state has turn by turn zoning, the people have accepted the principles of zoning.”
Chairman of the campaign council, Professor Oyovbaire on behalf of members of the council thanked the leadership of the PDP for choosing them to drive the campaign process.
He stated that the performance of Governor Okowa in the past three years will make the campaign easy for them.
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Meanwhile, two Civil Society Organisations, Paradigm Initiative and Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), are collaborating to ensure candidates in the 2019 general elections commit to adoption of e-governance.
This was revealed by Paradigm Initiative's program manager; Adegoke Adeboye and CITAD's communication officer; Salma Abdulwaheed, during an interactive session with journalists on Tuesday, December 4.
They stated that their aim is to promote institutional framework and approaches to anti-corruption and transparency efforts, especially as Nigeria prepares for the 2019 elections.
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