By Mike Odiegwu, Yenagoa
The Cameroon the Ninth of Twon Brass, Bayelsa State, His Royal Highness, Beinmo Rufus-Spiff, has endorsed the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the November 16 governorship election, Chief David Lyon.
Speaking in Yenagoa, the state capital, Rufus-Spiff, popularly called the Director and Godfather of Brass Local Government politics, said Lyon represented the future of Bayelsa.
The traditional head, who recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), described Lyon as a person of good character, humility and moral values.
He said among other things, Lyon had a clear blueprint to eliminate hunger and poverty through social investments, youths and women empowerment.
Rufus-Spiff lamented the collapse of Bayelsa economy and saying that despite huge revenue allocations accruing to the state, the government had done nothing to improve the lives of the people.
But he said the APC candidate had the passion to ensure security, modernization, infrastructural development and effective public service.
Rufus-Spiff appealed to the people of Bayelsa and the electorate in all the local government areas to turn up en masse and vote for Lyon and his running mate, Senator Biobarakumo Degi-Eremieyo.
He said: “The reason why I decided to support David Lyon is because of his character. He has a very strong character. When David Lyon tells you that you should go, you go but when he says wait and you wait he will always come back and meet you.
“He is a very simple and natural guy and a person that everybody can relate with. People in the rural areas, urban areas and international community can relate with him. He is somebody that gives. This is a time I believe that Bayelsa is going to have somebody that gives and Bayelsa people are really hungry for that.
“They want their leader to be a giver and somebody that can relieve them from pains. We are producing so much money but we are producing so much poverty. The money that we are receiving from federal allocations has not been translated to quality of lives. We are still living as if Bayelsa was created yesterday.
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“A state that was created over 20 years now, what are we to show the world? Everywhere you go they ask you what are your leaders doing with all the money. We need to ask ourselves, ‘what is happening to all the money that has been coming to Bayelsa?
“David Lyon has said when he comes, Bayelsa money is not his money and that he is a servant. I truly believe him that he is a servant of the people. He is coming to serve and not the people to serve him. That is the quality we need from a leader.
“We have been following leaders and nobody has been able to express who we really are. But David Lyon is that person. With everything God has blessed him with, David Lyon is humble and looks like every other Bayelsan. Everybody is his friend”.
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