…set to mobilise electorates on PVCs collection
No fewer than 300 Support Groups for the All Progressive Congress, APC, Presidential candidate, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, are set to begin massive grassroots campaign in Ekiti State.
According to the Coordinator, Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, South-West Support Groups in Ekiti State, Prince Adedayo Ogunsola, the body are working hard to ensure the party’s presidential candidate emerge winner.
Ogunsola, who spoke with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, on Friday, during the physical verification exercise of the support groups, noted that they are ready to mobilise voters at the grassroots for Tinubu.
The State Coordinator said the body will mobilise and create awareness on the need for voters for pick up their Permanent Voters Cards adding that over 3.8million voters card are yet to be collected.
His words: “As at this morning, looking back at the list we made in December, we have about 300 support groups. Our job today is to scrutinise them, verify them and ensure that they are truly support groups and are willing to work with us to elect Asiwaju by going to the grassroots and mobilising voters.
“One of the things we need to do is to turn the tide down. Today we see that INEC said over 3.8million voters card are yet to be collected in the South West. When are we going to mobilise people to collect their voters card, is it on the election day? It is now we have to do it. We have less than two weeks to mobilise people to do that. It must be a thing of concern for people at the party level who claim to be supporting Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. We must act fast.
“When we identify the groups that are working in tandem with us, it will be easier to mobilise through their coordinators to send them to the field, to go to their local governments, communities to go and mobilise people and send them to centres where their. PVCs should be collected and also those people who are yet to decide who to vote for and convert them to vote for Asiwaju. That is the job we have to do and is very urgent.
“It is not time for us to fight, it is not time for us to put ego. Our time right now should be used judiciously to work very hard so that we can turn our votes in Ekiti, in South West to winning votes for Asiwaju.
“What suppresses our movements, our progress right now is the issue of in-house fighting among the party stalwarts but luckily for us the state party chairman is in support of what we are doing. We have involved the government, the party leaders those who matters and these are the people who will make the decisions. If we can work with this people, I believe we can turn things around.”
In the same vein, Bakare Abobo, Ondo State PCC Coordinator, commended the support groups for willing to work for the party noting that Ekiti will vote massively for the party.
His words: “I’m here in Ekiti to witness the execise and how the verification exercise is going on. The PCC has been doing a lot, going round the South West states talking to the people, trying to gather the votes and put them in order for the achievement of Asiwaju’s victory.
“I believe they are well on ground in Ekiti to work tremendously for the success of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. I believe with these, the victory of Tinubu is 100% in the election.”
Yinka Akinlua, Coordinator of City Boy Ambassadors Support Group and APC PCC Supervisor in Irepodun/Ifeledun LGA, said “From the look of things the Presidential candidate of the APC is waxing stronger in all states of the federation, particularly in Ekiti State where members of APC Support Groups, market women, artisans, are fully prepared to vote for Tinubu.”