Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, yesterday inaugurated the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign team for President Bola Tinubu and the party’s governorship candidate, Senator Ahmed Aliyu Wadada, at Government House, Lafia.
Sule said members were picked for their local influence because ‘politics is local.’
He said the party would shift from a single-venue campaign to local government and ward-level campaigns.
‘The campaign this time will be different. It will not be a campaign of all the members of the campaign council moving to one location. We are going to focus more on local government and ward-level campaigns,’ he said.
The governor urged the team to ensure victory for the party, beginning with the presidential election, where he said Nasarawa has no excuse but to deliver Tinubu.
He credited the President with policies that increased revenue to the federal, state and local governments, naming the removal of fuel subsidy and the floating of the naira.
‘He took the bullet on behalf of all the states, the federal and local governments by the withdrawal of subsidy and the floating of the naira, which has put more resources in the hands of all three tiers of government,’ Sule said.
According to him, the added resources enabled the state to execute several projects without borrowing from banks.
‘The only thank you we can say to President Tinubu is to re-elect him,’ the governor said.
He added that re-electing the President without electing party members to work with him would amount to ‘half of the work done.’
‘If you truly love President Tinubu, you should vote for him and for the people in the same party who will support him,’ he said.
Earlier, Senator Wadada urged party supporters to work hard to deliver all APC candidates to victory.