The ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) is mobilising thousands of members in Ejigbo Local Council Development (LCDA) of Lagos State for a door-to-door campaign to ensure victory for its candidates in the 2019 general elections.
The APC is presenting President Muhammadu Buhari as its president candidate and Babajide Sanwo-Olu in Lagos as governor among others in the 2019 general elections.
The Mandate Movement (TMM), an arm of the party, in Ejigbo says the mobilisation is necessary to secure landslide victory for all its candidates at both federal and state levels.
At a rally tagged ‘get-out-and vote for APC’ held in Lagos on Tuesday, Kehinde Bamigbetan, leader of the TMM in Ejigbo, said they were irrevocably committed to the principles and agenda of the APC.
According to Bamigbetan, who doubles as commissioner for information and strategy in Lagos, the role of the group is to act as energisers at critical periods, interpret the party’s manifesto in a manner that advances its interests and the full development of the populace.
“We are aware that the general elections are near. On February 16, we shall go to the polls to elect our president, our senator, our member of the Federal House of Representatives. On March 2, we shall return to the polling booths to elect our governor and member of the House of Assembly.
He said the APC needed all the supports it could muster to accomplish the task of wining the elections.
“We are competing with over 60 parties nationwide and no fewer than 40 parties are contesting with us in the Oshodi-Isolo constituency 2.”
He said although it was normal for other parties to struggle for votes during elections, it was, however, incumbent on APC to win given its trajectory of performance in Lagos since the days of Bola Tinubu as governor.
“We want to assure you that the antics of other parties of are just the efforts of the cobweb that says it will not allow an elephant to pass. As our people say, even it is predicted that an animal with horns will knock one to death, it cannot be the ambition of a snail,” he added.
Bamigbetan noted that the achievements of the APC in Ejigbo were legendary of which the establishment of the Ejigbo LCDA was one.
The APC, he added have also executed several projects in the area, some of which are Ejigbo Multipurpose Centre, modern secretariat, Bola Ahmed Tinubu Primary School, Oladele Alake Primary School, Primary healthcare centres at Onaiwamimo, Free meal, Free uniforms, Free GCE forms, free JAMB forms, free vocational education, among others.
He said the APC, therefore, had more than enough to convince Ejigbo people to vote the party on February 16 and March 2, but noted that party supporters could not sit at home and expect miracles on these election days.
“We have to go out and engage the people and convince them that the candidates of our party are the best servants that can serve them. This is why we have created a team each for each candidate at each of the polling booths to be used in this election,” he said.
JOSHUA BASSEY
