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Bayelsa guber: ACN set to spring surprise – Okara

By staff 08/02/2012 23:39:00

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By Innocent Anaba

Bayelsa State Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, governorship candidate in this weekend’s election, Mr. Kemela Okara, Wednesday, said his party has what it takes to produce the next governor of the state.

Okara in a statement by his campaign organisation, said the election would shock many people because Bayelsans are tired of persons, who think they can toy with their destiny.

The statement by Onuwa Joseph, said the party had sufficient brand visibility and a strong loyalty base that could see it coasting home to electoral victory.

Okara said Bayelsans have been groaning and crying for change but that unfortunately, the cry had not produced the desired result as they considered themselves powerless and without alternatives.

Noting that it was the abject failure of leadership that drew people like him to seek the governorship, he pledged to effect a change of direction in the fortunes of the people of the state.

He said that unlike many, who were just joining the race, he had been campaigning since 2010, when it dawned on him and other like-minded people, that only a democratically effected change in leadership could right the wrongs that had been visited all these years on the people.

On the chances of ACN being treated as a serious contender in a state, which had remained a stronghold of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP since 1999, he said that the party which started out as Alliance for Democracy, AD had always been a strong contender.

Describing his party as the second strongest party in the state, he noted that Seriake Dickson, the current PDP candidate was once the national legal adviser of the AD, which metamorphosed into ACN.

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