Sylva Promises To Partner With FG, NDDC For More Development . . . Says PDP Government Has Failed Ogbia People
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APC Gubernatorial Candidate
by Chris MarkThe Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Timipre Sylva for the November 11 Election in Bayelsa State said he will partner with Federal Government and the Niger Delta Development Commission for more developmental projects in the state if elected.
Sylva, who was a former governor and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources said this in Ogbia main town on Monday, October 24, where mammoth crowd received him and his campaign trail on the occasion of his campaigns to Ogbia communities.
He said with an APC government at the centre and their son, Chief Samuel Ogbuku at the helm of affairs as the Managing Director of the NDDC, Ogbia people and Bayelsians need not to worry but to get it right by voting for the APC, saying that is the only way they will achieve more.
Sylva hinted that he has always loved Ogbia people wondered why the 12 years of PDP administration in the state hates the Ogbia people that has produced great men such as Chief Melford Okilo, former President Goodluck Jonathan and now NDDC MD, Samuel Ogbuku.
He said while serving as a governor, a lot of projects carried out by his government for Ogbia people including sand filling of the Abobri road, setting up of the first Independent Power Plant (IPP) in the country amongst other projects were all abandoned by subsequent administrations due to lack of love for the Ogbia people.
His words: “When I become governor, on the 11th of November when you vote for me and on the 14th of February 2024 when I would have been sworn in and inaugurated, I will partner with the MD of NDDC and story of Ogbia will never be the same again.
“Ogbia is a blessed land, I said so before a long time ago, when we were in old Rivers State, an Ogbia man rose up to become our governor and leader of our people, our dear father late Chief Melford Okilo an Ogbia son, we were yearning to go to the centre and as a small minority, it was almost impossible for it to become Vice President or President of the country but God made it possible and made Dr Goodluck Jonathan Vice President and President, an Ogbia son and then today he has also made an Ogbia son the MD, Executive officer of NDDC in charge of nine states.
“You all know I started a lot of projects, the projects to do the road to Abobri where I grew up, that road a lot of road that i opened up, sand filled completely but abandoned by subsequent governments because they do not love Ogbia people, now Bayelsa was the first state in the Federal Republic of Nigeria to develop our own IPP which is Independent Power Plant . you will know the power plant at Imiringi which supply power not only in Ogbia but the whole Bayelsa State because they do not love Ogbia people they have killed it, I heard they have sold it.
Sylva, while reeling out his six points agenda said that his priority agenda which is human capacity development is to develop, educate and empower the people so as to brace up for challenges.
He said his administration if elected into power through his agenda of infrastructural development will tackle the perennial flooding bedeviling the people of Ogbia and Bayelsa State at large.
The governorship hopeful while speaking on the issues of coastal erosion, flooding, amongst other issues said the problems are not peculiar to Bayelsa alone but even Lagos where president Bola Ahmed Tinubu was a governor had such issues henced Tinubu understands the problems confronting the people and will not waste time to partner with the state government.
He said; “So when president Tinubu has already offered to partner with us, we will not partner with him? So, vote for APC, vote for myself and great Joshua Maciver, and I want to assure you with us at the helm of affairs, with NDDC partnering with us, I know Ogbia people are wise people and will not make mistake on the 11th of November after voting for APC, we will connect to the centre and Ogbia will never be the same again.
The campaign trail had earlier moved to Otuabagi Community and later moved to Otuasega and Otuokpoti Communities in Constituency 1, 3 and 2 respectively of Ogbia Communities, where the candidates of Sylva and Maiciver assured them of their determination to govern the state properly.
