- Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has urged members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) campaign council to focus on issue-based campaigns for his re-election
- He emphasized the need to campaign with the achievements and projects his administration has delivered to the people of Bayelsa
Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri, who is running for re-election on the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) platform, has asked members of the party’s campaign council to embrace issue-based campaigns ahead of the state’s governorship election on November 11.
The governor spoke at the launch of the PDP state campaign council for his re-election in Yenagoa, the state capital, on Sunday.
He said;
Today (yesterday), I have released all of you to go down to your various units, wards and communities to mobilise support for our victory.
Let me also admonish all of us to make our campaigns to be issue-based and unit-based. Let us campaign with our projects. We have done very well. Bayelsa people are with us. In all the local government areas, we have done laudable projects.
Hon. Obordor Mitema, a first-term member of the House of Representatives in the 10th National Assembly representing Bayelsa State’s Ogbia Federal Constituency, was appointed as the council’s Director General (Law).
Hon. Abraham Ingobere, Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, was appointed as Director of Mobilisation; Ayiba Duba Crowther, Commissioner for Information, Strategy, and Orientation, was appointed as Director of Publicity, with a former Commissioner for Information, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, as a member of the publicity team.
Ayiba Duba, the committee’s Director of Publicity (Law) and Commissioner for Information stated, “What we want to tell Bayelsans is that this party is going to come back stronger; we are going to win the election.”
What transpired today (yesterday) was the formal inauguration of the gubernatorial campaign council. The director general is Hon. Mitema Obordor, a member of the House of Representatives. He has been mandated to start the work of canvassing for votes from Bayelsans.