Bayelsa 2023: Udengs Eradiri, LP guber candidate speaks, says ‘I will win’
Udengs Eradiri, the Labour Party’s candidate for governor of Bayelsa State, has expressed confidence that he will win the election on November 11, 2023.
This was said by Eradiri, a former leader of the Ijaw Youth Council, on Thursday at his campaign headquarters in Yenagoa when he briefed reporters on his plans for the state’s growth.
He bragged that he was certain to win the election because the Peoples Democratic Party, which is currently in power, had allegedly made it possible for voters to select his candidacy as the alternative for a better Bayelsa. He emphasized that poverty was pervasive in the state and that businesses were leaving Yenagoa for other locations as a result of alleged poor governance.
Under the leadership of former governor and current senator Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa West, Eradiri, who previously served as commissioner for youth, declared that his development program will be centered on “People, Education, Agriculture, and Power.”
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Having gained experience as an Ijaw youth leader and in the public sector with his most recent appointment as a special assistant on youth and sports under the most recent interim management of the Niger Delta Development Commission, he claimed to have the capacity and competence to govern and provide leadership for the development of the state.
He said that he had been a contributor to the state’s development as a prominent player in the private sector, an employer of labor, and a taxpayer, and that his aspirations and development blueprint for the state were the emancipation that the people had been yearning for.
As the second-term candidate for governor of the PDP and a native of Bayelsa Central, the LP standard bearer Douye Diri remarked, “I believe that as a young man who has gone through the process of learning, it is time I shouldn’t be complaining but taking action.”
“My PEAP (People, Education, Agriculture and Power) agenda will be propagated around every structure of leadership. We are going to run a pyramid system of government in Bayelsa State where local governments and communities understand the PEAP agenda.
“And let me tell you, we are going to win this election. We are going to win this election because the poverty in Bayelsa is naked for everybody to see.
“I don’t have the money they have. In any case, I’m not even afraid of the money, it’s my money, our money that they are bringing. It’s your schools, it’s your economy, it’s your agriculture they are going to be bringing. They are gathering it to come and buy people for four hours.
“If the people say they don’t want me, I’m not desperate to be governor. I will go and face my work. But young people must get up, it is you that are graduating and there is no job, it is our mothers that have nothing to do anymore, and businesses are leaving the state because it’s no longer conducive for them to stay. This is the liberation that Bayelsans have been waiting for.”