Ready for the good fight – Rivers PDP
The State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it is ready for what it describes as “the good fight. “
The party said in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital, by the Director, Directorate of Publicity and Communications of the Rivers State Campaign Council , Chief Ogbonna Nwuke said all is now set for the PDP’s outdoor campaign.
“Early in the week, the PDP in Rivers State released its official campaign time-table. We have barely four days to go to the commencement of the outdoor campaign of the PDP.
“Beginning from Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area on the 16th of this month, we shall go from Local Government to Local Government Area to showcase our candidates and what the PDP will do for Rivers people in the next four years.
Siminalayi Fubara, flagbearer of the PDP in Rivers State.Nwuke noted that the battle ahead is one between darkness and light, empty promises and promises fulfilled.
“Let no one deceive Rivers people. This is a fight between light and darkness; a fight between empty promises and promises fulfilled; a fight between deceitful lies and a great will on the part of our leaders to serve the people”, the statement emphasized.
Rallying the people and its members the Campaign Council emphatically declared:
“It is therefore time to gird our loins for the good fight, time to roll up our sleeves, and time to put our hands on the plough, in a determined effort to further uplift the pace of development in our State along a defined path that puts the people first and selfish personal interests, last.
“It is time to enter into another social contract with our people, and time to execute a new understanding that works for all through the consolidation of efforts that are rapidly shaping the future of the Rivers State.”
Governor Nyesom Wike… Driver of the New Rivers Vision and architect of the swift transformation that is taking place in Rivers State.“We urge all lovers of our great State, all who are born in our dear State, who reside in our urban and semi urban areas, who reside in our local government areas and our local communities, to turn out enmasse to receive our resourceful, ebullient and dynamic leader, Governor Nyesom Wike and all other leaders of our great party on the campaign trail as we embark on a journey that we believe will end ultimately in victory by the special grace of God”, Nwuke remarked.
“Given what has happened in the State in the last seven years and what is still going on today in terms of the execution of well thought out development programmes at the grassroots”, the campaign council pointed out, “nobody who has a pure and descerning heart can be in any doubt” about the “capacity of the Rivers PDP to take the State to a new threshold of progress and growth.
“As a responsible and focused political party, experienced in the delivery of good govenance, we are prepared to take our message of economic prosperity, social transformation and political consolidation to all nooks and crannies of Rivers State.
“We are similarly ready to share our message of great hope, and outstanding achievements of the Wike administration that eyes can see, with the good people of Rivers State.
Chief Ogbonna Nwuke, Director of the Directorate of Publicity and Communications of the Rivers State Campaign Council“By the grace of God, the report card, eminently earned by the performing Governor of Rivers State, adjudged the best in the country has been well received by detribalized Nigerians and all true Rivers people.
“Rivers State is PDP, PDP is Rivers State. It is on record that successive PDP administrations in Rivers State have worked tirelessly to deliver dividends of democracy in pursuit of a common vision that we share with the people.”