From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa

 

The Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has inaugurated the Tinubu/Shettima Grassroot Independent Campaign Council (ICC) with a declaration that the party’s Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, will win the 2023 election.

 

A former governorship aspirant in the state,  Preye Aganaba, who emerged the Bayelsa State coordinator of the ICC, said Tinubu’s victory was sure, adding that the campaign structures were only worried about the margin of difference between him and the candidate that would come second.

 

Aganaba, who described the APC Bayelsa as formidable, recalled that the party won in the last governorship election in 2019 and gave President Muhammadu Buhari over 42 per cent of the votes.

 

He described the inauguration as a call to duty, noting that it was the first time a presidential candidate established Independent structures to compliment the efforts of the party’s campaign council because Tinubu desired to have partners that would collaborate with him in governance and not supporters

“For a state like Bayelsa where there is no governorship candidate, it also enhances the chances of the candidate because our job is to galvanize support that will be absent where there is no governorship candidate.

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“What we want are not supporters, we want partners. That is what our candidate wants, who will partner with him to go to the election and also partner in government. Everybody knows that we are all grassroot politicians and that we will succeed at the end of the day.

 

”We have done well, Lagos is an example. Lagos is the most prosperous state in Nigeria today because somebody set up a process that has pushed Lagos to the most formidable state in Nigeria today. So we are not doing this because of our personal interest, we are doing it because of our love for Nigeria.

 

“Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu was a governor, his record is there for everybody to scrutinize. He is the best in the field and he is going to win the election, Nigerians know that. We are only thinking about his margin of difference between the first and the second candidate.”

 

Other members of the ICC are Eddi Julius, Secretary; Joseph Fafi, Admin & Fin; Emmanuel Orianzi, Operations & Organisation; Ruby Nyanayo, Media; Fortune Alfred, ICT/SR.

Othrs are Sata-Owugha Caroline Ngoebiye, Women; Atikpa Bolouebi Stephen, Youth; Joseph Anthony, Data Verification; Roseline Ajua Appa, Election Management; Edison Sogwe, Support GRP and Mr Peres Peretu.