2023: Opobo GDI Begins Door-To-Door Campaign For  PDP Candidates In Rivers

Ahead of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, a political pressure group in Rivers State, the Grassroots Development Initiative (GDI), Opobo/Nkoro Chapter, says it has commenced a door–to-door campaign initiated by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Sir Siminialayi Fubara and other candidates of the party, describing it as the best way the PDP would mobilise the Rivers electorate towards winning the polls.
In a statement issued in Port Harcourt after her National Working Committee (NWC) end-of-year meeting and signed by the Deputy Coordinator, Senibo Emeka John Africa and Secretary, Senibo Chidi Stewart respectively, the grassroots mobilising group urged members to key into the door-to-door campaign strategy of the party and ensure that Rivers electorate are properly sensitised on the need to support and vote for PDP at the polls.
GDI, in the statement, said:
‘’This is time to work for our great leader, Sir Siminialayi Fubara, his running mate, Prof Ngozi Ordu and other great leaders of this state and country. Their legacies and achievements here in Port Harcourt speak volumes for these individuals.
“But we will not sit down and expect this to work. We have to stand and reach out to people around us and convince them why they must support and vote for PDP in the slated 2023 general polls. We have so much trust in Fubara, his running mate, Prof Ordu and other candidates of our party, and we are confident that they would not fail us and Nigerians if we all rise up and mobilise and give them the needed support they desire to emerge as winner’’.
Meanwhile, the group has hailed Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State over the recent appointment of Alabo-Elect Chris Finebone as Commissioner for Information and Communications in the state.
The group said: Doubtlessly, the true leader in Chris Finebone has compelled him to take deliberate actions that have positively and radically impacted the course of programmes in the politics of Rivers State and Nigeria as erstwhile spokesperson of the All Progressives  Congress (APC) in the oil-rich state and now Commissioner for Information and Communications.
‘‘The avalanche of challenges Finebone had courageously taken has brought many achievements in the past under his leadership.’’
The body, therefore, thanked the governor for bringing Chris Finebone on board to showcase his sterling leadership quality to bear in the state as information mouth piece of the state, describing the appointment as ‘‘well deserved’’.
The GDI also used the opportunity to admonish the Commissioner, who they described as ‘‘doyen of exemplary and qualitative leadership, full of vigor, wisdom, charisma and doggedness,’’ to deliver on purposeful governance.
It urged him to be worthy ambassador of Opobo Kingdom and Ijaw nation by bringing his wealth of leadership experience and acumen to bear while praying God for good health, agility and divine protection in the corridors of power under the watch of Governor Nyesom Wike.

By: Bethel Toby