Lalong Constitutes Fresh Campaign Team

Yakubu Busari

The Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong has inaugurated his  Campaign Council of the Rescue Administration’s re-election team for the purpose of achieving victory for our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming general elections.

You would recall that on the day of the flag-off of my re-election campaign on January 4 this year,  I stressed our resolve to come out with a robust campaign council comprising men and women with  track records of achievements, training, as well as political clout and experience to join the reelection train in order to have a resounding victory towards the March 2, 2019 gubernatorial elections.

He ,therefore, said this marks a very significant milestone for the APC Government in Plateau State, as I inaugurate our party’s Campaign Council ahead of this year’s general elections.

We are inaugurating men and women of “timber and caliber,” who have been carefully, strategically and meticulously selected as arrowheads of the campaign. Their inauguration means a countdown to our re-election victory has now commenced in earnest.

Lalong congratulated those who have made the Campaign Council list on this epochal occasion of their inauguration ,You are, no doubt, loyal and  faithful party members chosen  out of the thousands and thousands of party enthusiasts, to help in prosecuting the state’s campaign committee.

 Lalong thanked them  immensely for accepting to join us on the  council having been found worthy and privileged to be appointed into this team of wise men and women, you are hereby tasked with the onerous responsibility of ensuring a seemless victory for the party in the elections ahead.

He explained further that APC has   clearly demonstrated, particularly during the House of Assembly bye-elections, as well as the recently conducted local government elections. Our victory in these elections eloquently testify to the fact that our party is solidly on ground and that the electorate is solidly behind us.

The  incumbent Government, which has recorded stunning electoral victories against the opposition, and has also achieved so much with so little resources within a record time of less than four years, we must, however, not rest on our oars and be complacent in the task ahead.

We must, therefore, do everything legitimately possible to ensure landslide victory, and not mere marginal victory, for our party in all the forthcoming elections.

The governor urged you all to immediately hit the ground running. This has become necessary, especially considering that the elections are already around the corner, time is not on our side and the opposition are digging in to gain some political foothold if we slip.

Lalong deployed his  talent, training, experience and resources to  give this unique assignment the seriousness it deserves with the ultimate aim of delivering victory for the party in all the elections.

He promised to vigorously take the Rescue Message to intra-family, neighbor-to-neighbor, ward-to-ward levels of the campaigns.

The people at the grassroots ought to know from  nothing else but the truth. They should be made to understand that those who are responsible for their present poverty woes today, destroyed the education of their children yesterday and looted the national and state treasuries yesterday are the same people seeking to replace APC and return to power to perpetuate the misery of the masses.

Their only aim is return to power to continue their looting spree to the detriment of all of us. Never again should we allow them access to power!

He  reiterated that the Rescue Administration under my leadership has achieved so much in the past almost four years now and laid a solid foundation for the Plateau State of our collective dreams. The Constitution has already stipulated that we seek re-election for a second term in office and our aim is to return and consolidate on our modest achievements for the benefit of the people.

The APC family and indeed the entire people of Plateau State owe us the duty of returning the party to power, failing which we will risk returning the state to the very people who had mortgaged her future and made it the sole inheritance of their own families.

Lalong maintained that ,our record time scorecard in less than four years speaks for itself, cutting across all our five policy thrusts, as we have unleashed the dividends of democracy which have continued to flow and flood all the nooks and crannies of the entire Plateau landscape, thus justifying our bid for re-election in order to continue to do more and consolidate on the ones already put in place.

He added that APC  turned around the Education Sector; we have breathed life into the hitherto comatose civil service; we have stemmed the hitherto open-ended spate of violence; we have diversified the state’s economy to agriculture with amazing results to be savored in the not-too-distant future; we have empowered women and youths like never before; we have resuscitated hitherto moribund state-owned industries; we have completed most of the multi-billion naira projects which we inherited from past administrations and also embarked on new, turn-key projects, such as the Lalong Legacy Projects, among numerous others.