The governorship candidate of Labour Party (LP) in Bayelsa State, Engr. Udengs Eradiri, has said with the growing grassroots support for his campaigns, he would demystify money politics at the November 11 poll.
Eradiri spoke during his campaign tour with stakeholders and supporters of the LP to Nembe City, Opu Nembe and Otakeme community in Nembe and Ogbia local government areas.
Eradiri, who was overwhelmed by the crowd that trooped out to receive him, said he was aspiring to become a people-oriented leader that would provide mentorship for young people and reposition the state for greatness.
Eradiri lamented the crisis that had befallen Nembe, sympathised with them and assured them that if elected his administration would focus on the development of the area and stop all forms of politically-induced unrests.
He noted that he was in the race to rescue Bayelsa, develop all communities, while insisting that the state was suffering from bad leadership and clueless government.
He said: “We are the second poorest state, and with the highest school dropouts in the whole of the country, which is very sad. I am moving across all the communities of our state selling my manifestoes.
“I will change the old order of doing things. I will not clap hands for myself for building roads, infrastructure development and other social amenities which ordinarily are the rights of the people. Together, we will make Bayelsa work again.
“If we don’t tell ourselves the truth we will be left behind, most states have gone far while we are on retrogression. I have the solution to the problems of the people, I have a strong message than any other party flag bearer. Let us make a choice that we won’t regret tomorrow.”
At Otakeme community, Eradiri promised to generate employments for the youth and lamented the death of over 10 Bayelsa-owned establishments.
He said: “So how will you create jobs when these companies belonging to us are dead. Government must support the people to prosper and not to under-develop them.
“They have used cult confraternity to destroy our people in our villages. I’m talking to the group leaders to make them productive by turning the cult organisations to agricultural organisations when I become governor.
“I will engage them in agriculture, just imagine that all the fresh pepper are supplied by Icelanders cult group, and the tomatoes by Greenlanders.
“Bayelsa has Sampou and Peremabiri rice farms, but after 40 years no grain has been produced. So I will rather invest in the Otuokpoti rice farm because the people in that community are original rice growers. If we invest in Otuokpoti we will succeed.”
