Stakeholders react to APC victory in Kogi legislative polls
Stakeholders in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in Kogi State have identified reasons reasons the party enjoyed overwhelming support from electorate in the just concluded elections into the state House of Assembly.
The successful outing, the Director General, APC Campaign Council, Hon Edward Onoja said hinged on several factors including effective communication, competency of candidates, non imposition of candidates, among others.
He said all the candidates on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in Kogi State were not imposed and they never gave bribes for endorsement, noting that their emergence was as a result of due process.
“Those who did not make it at the primaries were quickly engaged in sincere dialogue with the party leadership and they shelved their ambitions, joined the winners of the primaries and worked collectively for the success of the party. This is the principle that demonstrates that everybody within the party is important.”
Hon Onoja, who doubles as the Chief of Staff to the state governor noted that effective communication between the leadership of the party from top to the bottom was also critical to the party’s success in the last elections.
In his words; “In Kogi State, governance and politicking has an unbroken chain of network from the very top to the unit level where the actions of winning or losing elections take place. We put in place effective networking in a very transparent and open manner. When the leader of the party gives directions, it goes down to the least unit within the party, no one was left behind in the scheme of things”.
He emphasized that the party executives were also made up of competent party faithful with proven integrity. “The Excos Of our party in the state are made up of people with proven integrity and capacity that emerged through transparent party congress. So, there are people with commitment and determination to drive electioneering campaign that has resulted in our victory today.”
The last and most important reason that earned the APC a landslide victory in Kogi according to the DG was effective leadership that the state government under Governor Yahaya Bello is providing for the people.
“There are physical infrastructure at every locality in the state which are functions of the leadership of the present administration. Yes, we are not where we want to be but the people believe the government is taking steps in the right direction to improve their well being through provision of critical infrastructure and they (people) are not ready to return to the old day of ineffective leadership”.
The state party chairman, Hon Abdullahi Bello said the overwhelming victory of the APC at the polls were clear indications that the party was more United and positioned for any electoral contest in the state.
On his part, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor, Hon Muhammed Onogwu noted: “The people have shown that they trust the APC-led administration because the achievements are visible enough to speak for themselves. The victory that APC recorded in the 2019 polls is without doubt a reward for hard work, sincerity, transparency and accountability”.
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