APC promises to deliver on party manifesto

Benjamin Omoike, Lagos

The ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) has assured Nigerians that it will deliver on all plans and programmes promised citizens during its electioneering campaign. At a motorcade rally on Tuesday held at Ejigbo area of Lagos state, ahead of next Saturday’s general election, APC loyalists from Ejigbo/Isolo area of Lagos drummed up support for the re-election bid of President Muhammad Buhari and other candidates at state and national levels. Speaking at the rally, Programme coordinator, Lagos Commissioner for Information and Stategy, Kehinde Bamigbetan, said that the event was organised to remind people of the need to know their civic responsibility as Nigerians who have inalienable rights to vote and be voted for during election, and particularly to use the train to showcase their candidates vying for various political offices to the prospective voters. “Today we are having a rally and a road show to parade our candidates and to engage people on the street to let them know that APC is the party to vote for and we are making a case of continuity because we believe that we have used the time of four years to reposition the direction of this country towards sustainable development of national economy. We believe that this is the only way for us,” Bamigbetan said On the renewed vigour and strength of the party in the area having lost to the opposition in the last election, Bamigbetan said that it is now a different ball game. According to him “You know that in the last election we lost. Though we don’t lose in Ejigbo, but we lost in Isolo, but this time, we have been able to play the politics. The person that won the House of Assembly against us is now in our party. We have also made sure that we have strengthened our party in such a way that minority elements around us are now fully integrated into the party. We now have Igbo people in the Executive of the party and Councillors. So, the idea that APC is a rural party is no longer there, because we have recreated the party as a cosmopolitan party.” Bamigbetan emphasised that the APC will continue its developmental drive started by President Buhari and take people to the next level of democratic governance. A candidate of the Federal House of Representative, Oshodi/Isolo constituency 2, Engr. Ganiu Johnson, explained that the administration of President Buhari has established a firmer ground for the nation to take off for another platform of prosperity and will need people’s support to achieve. He said the importance of the rally was to emphasize the need for everyone to come out on February 16 and March 2 to vote for all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC. “This is a motorcade rally organised on behalf of Ejigbo Local Government and the importance is to go round the Local Government to let people know that our party is on ground. Truly, we have been canvassing house-to-house, we are doing more to tell prospective voters that our party is the best among all others. There is wisdom in voting our party at the next general election on February 16 and March 2, because the truth is that if they vote for us, it will enable us to continue our good work in empowerment, provide adequate infrastructure and support the state economy to grow,” he said. He assured people of his constituency of better days ahead if elected next Saturday. Also, the former Lagos State Chairman of the APC, Mr. Henry Ajomale, enjoined voters in the area to get ready for the election with their Permanent Voters Card and cast their ballot for continuity in both the federal and state levels. “We enjoin the good people of Ejigbo and its environ to get their Permanent Voters Cards ready and close to them, so that they can use it to vote a brighter future and better days.” Ajomale however, urged youths to desist from any violence and criminal acts that could jeopardise the successful electoral outcome.