Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Rivers State, Ambassador Desmond Akawor has urged members of the party to remain united and committed to the course of securing victory for the party’s governorship candidate, Amoapusenibo Siminialayi Fubara and his running mate, Professor Ngozi Ordu in the 2023 general election.
Akawor also urged party stalwarts to dismantle all the camps formed before the governorship primaries since a candidate has emerged for the party.
He gave the advice on Monday while speaking at the bi-weekly Praise and Worship programme tagged, “One Hour With Jesus” at the State Party Secretariat, Aba Road, Port Harcourt.
He stated that the governorship candidate, Fubara does not belong to any camp, disclosing that his camp is the PDP structure which he is working very closely with.
“The issue of jumping from one camp to another to be identified does not pay. Our governorship candidate, Sim Fubara is working with the party. The truth is that our party is still at a very advantageous position. We need to stay together so that at the end of the day we will be able to lift our shoulders high that we delivered this Governor and it will be easy to go to him and ask how far,” he said.
The PDP boss who announced that the campaign for the 2023 Governorship election in the state would be driven by the PDP and the Grassroots Development Initiative, GDI , said no other NGO would be allowed to engage in separate campaigns for the candidate.
He also informed that the GDI had been permitted to launch its sensitization program ahead of actual campaign for the governorship election in September this year adding that the group would release its timetable for the sensitization program this week.
“GDI is going to bring out its timetable this week so that they will run their sensitization programme from LGA to LGA. That will be on until September when the campaign team will be available both at the State and LGAs and campaigns will then take off,” Akawor said.
He told members of the party not to be disillusioned with what happened during the party’s convention in Abuja, asserting that the governor did not disgrace the party and the state during the convention.
”The good thing is that our principal, the Governor of the state had a good fight in Abuja. Ofcourse the whole place quaked, including the opposition confessed that this was the man that came first”.
While commending members of the congregation for being steadfast in the programme, Akawor reminded them that their prayers had not gone unanswered , judging by the successes recorded during the various Congresses and National Convention in Abuja, urging them to continue to be firm, and peaceful.
“So for this I still want to urge you to continue in what we are doing because we are seeing the benefits that this prayer we are doing is paying off,” he stated.
