by Ranti Joseph
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Davies Ibiamu Ikanya assured that the people of the South-south geo-political zone of the country would vote massively for the party’s presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, on March 28, 2015.
He disclosed this in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Friday. In the statement which was signed by his media aide, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, Ikanya congratulated Buhari on a successful campaign rally in the zone, saying that there is nothing to compare him and President Goodluck Jonathan when it comes to caring for the welfare of the people of the zone.
“There is nothing to compare between General Buhari and President Goodluck Jonathan when it comes to caring for the welfare of the people of the South-south. While President Jonathan has confessed that he deliberately refused to develop Rivers State and the entire South-south, General Buhari built one of the refineries in South-south and constructed the only road that links Bayelsa with Rivers State. This shows that if he is given another opportunity, he will develop the South-South more than President Jonathan, who has refused to develop the region and therefore does not deserve the people’s vote. The people of the South-south will indeed vote massively for General Buhari and other APC candidates for the various elections on March 28 and April 11,” he said.
While commending Buhari for promising to fight corruption frontally upon assuming office as Nigeria’s next president, he said the party supports Buhari on his plan to fight corruption head-on.
“If we don’t fight corruption, corruption will kill us as a nation. We are privileged to have Buhari as our presidential candidate; he is the bullet we have to fight corruption and after March 29, 2015 when General Buhari would have being announced as the President elect of Nigeria, corruption will be reduced by 80 per cent,” he added.
