…Promises to wipe out poverty in Rivers State
Kelechi Esogwa-Amadi
The governorship ambition of business mogul, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, received further boost as the Accord Party national leadership gave him the party’s flag to contest for this year’s governorship election in Rivers State.
The flag was handed over to him by the party’s national chairman, Alhaji Mohammed Lawal Nalado during a World Press Conference held at L.A. King’s Hotel, Stadium Road, Port Harcourt.
In handing over the flag to Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, the Accord Party’s national chairman said he believed that the national leadership of the party had made a good choice.
While congratulating the people of Rivers State for accepting Lulu-Briggs as their governorship candidate, Alhaji Nalado said that the Accord Party stands for peace and progress, hence the party’s interest in holistic development.
The Accord Party national chairman added: “Our party gives priority to human capital development. It is better to build human capital than to build infrastructure. When you build people, you build a nation. Crimes are increasing today because the people have been abandoned. Our governorship candidate has the capacity to restore Rivers State.
“We’re here today to hand over the flag of peace, victory, oneness and progress to Dumo Lulu-Briggs.”
Addressing the mammoth guests and supporters who came to witness the event, the Rivers State governorship candidate of the Accord Party, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, thanked the national leadership of the party for giving him and his running mate, Otua-Hart Nakwaasah the honour of flying the Accord Party’s flag.
He said that the rights to live in dignity and be free from poverty as well as the right to education, security, acquisition of wealth, among others were the responsibilities of every responsible government which his administration would be.
Stressing that a wind of change was blowing in all the nooks and cranny of Rivers State, the Accord Party governorship candidate declared that the state needed a new direction, given the things happening in Rivers State in the last twenty years.
“A wind of change is blowing across Rivers State, blowing away our tears. It is blowing through Ikwerre Land; the wind is blowing through Ogoni Land; it is whirling through the length and breadth of Kalabari Land, Andoni, Etche, Ogba, Ekpeye, Ndoni, Ndoki, Okrika, Engenni, Ibani, Bille, Abua and Odual Land. The strong wind of change is blowing from the mainland down to the creeks of Rivers State.
“As we approach the forthcoming polls, especially the governorship elections, on March 2, 2019, political activities are expected to get to the crescendo. Yet keen observers of the happenings in Rivers State in the last 20 years, especially the past three years and eight months, will agree that the state needs a new direction. Rivers State requires a new deal that must start with fresh interrogation of the leadership question in the state.
“It is an irony of fate that a society as endowed with human and natural resources as well as with potentials for massive industrialization, as Rivers State, can have its people as marginalized and pauperized as we are,” Lulu-Briggs said.
Going down memory lane, the Accord Party governorship candidate recalled how the founding fathers of Rivers State worked with the first governor of old Rivers State, Alfred Diete-Spiff, to put the state on the part of progress and regretted that the vision of those founding fathers and their effort had been abandoned by present-day political leaders.
Enumerating his vision and mission for Rivers State, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs promised to return the state to its former glory by putting it back on the track of socio-economic and political development as envisioned by her founding fathers.
Earlier, the state chairman of Accord Party, Dr Nnanna Onyekwere, promised that once in government, his party would return Rivers State to her lost glory.
Expressing regret that the state had been ruled by the same people in different garbs, Dr Onyekwere said that the leadership of Rivers State was overdue for change.
The forum of disabled persons in Rivers State and representatives of all the students’ union governments in the state all came to publicly endorse Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs for governor of Rivers State, calling on the people of the state to support him because of his numerous unmatchable humanitarian activities.
