The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie Oyegun, has said the party is not interested in foisting on the country a one-party state.
Oyegun’s statement came on the heels of an assertion made by the governor of Sokoto state, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal to the effect that the governing party is ready to do everything humanly possible within the confines of the law to bring APC into the government house of Bayelsa State.
Speaking yesterday at the formal inauguration of the APC Campaign Council for the December 5 Bayelsa State governorship election, Oyegun said the campaign by the party to get every Nigerian to join the train for change in the affairs of country must not be misconstrued to mean a push for a one-party structure.
“We are not working towards creating a one party nation. We are only saying today that the challenges facing this nation are so enormous that we need every man, woman and child on board so that the trajectory on which we are traveling should change dramatically. For that, we need all geopolitical zone as well as all the good people of this country to please come on board because the task at hand is enormous,” he said
Oyegun said APC realises the fact that for it to bring about reasonable change, it requires the understanding and cooperation of most Nigerians if not everyone.
According to him, the country is blessed with abundant human and natural resources but what is needed is to get the leadership to do the right thing.
“ We have a nation that is in every way gifted. Starting from our president, for the first time in the history of this nation, we have a man in charge who is accepted, acknowledged and known to be a man of his words. We have a man whose words are identical with his deeds.
“We have a man who is accepted world wide and is trusted not just by Nigerians, but the entire international community. So, we have every reason to work to sustain the gift that God has given to us. The kind of resources which this nation is endowed with, the kind of persons with which this nation is blessed, we have absolutely no reason to be where we are today as a people. Oyegun while inaugurating the 35-member campaign council charged them with the responsibility of putting together an aggressive structure and a campaign message that will win over the people of the state to APC.
He said the APC needed Bayelsa badly to prove a point.
“It is an election that we need to win to bring Bayelsa into the fold, I urge people to join the movement into the train of change in this nation. The council is to help raise the funds needed to ensure that this message reaches every man, woman and child in Bayelsa State, so that come December, the victory will be so decisive. I am confident of the Bayelsa election because we have a good product. Secondly, we have a totally and abysmally a non-performing governor in Bayelsa State.
“The work that this committee is going to embark upon will produce the first progressive governor of Bayelsa State. Let me thank all of you that have accepted to serve in this very challenging assignment,” he said.
The governor of Sokoto State, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, who is to serve as the Deputy Chairman of the Bayelsa Campaign Council, said from an assessment he has made, Bayelsa is on its way to joining the governing party.
He also said that judging by the records of the performance of Silva while in office, people of the state will vote for him without cohesion.
