• Tasks members on President’s victory in 2027 poll

BAYELSA State Governor, Douye Diri, has inaugurated coordinators of the Renewed Hope Ambassadors (RHA) in the eight local councils under the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Diri, who charged the local council coordinators to mobilise members of the party for the ward, local council and state congresses and ensure success for the APC at all levels, said the state coordinator remains Chief Tiwei Orunimighe.

He urged the RHA to operate an inclusive leadership at the local council and state levels as well as work with the South-South zonal coordinator, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, a former governor of Delta State.

The governor gave the charge during the APC stakeholders meeting at the DSP Alamieyeseigha Banquet Hall in Yenagoa last Thursday.

He cautioned leaders of the party against divisive tendencies, urging them to ensure unity of purpose and success in their various wards and local councils.

He also implored members to shelve personal political ambitions for now and focus on President Bola Tinubu’s second term re-election bid in 2027.

His words: “We are aware that some of you have personal political ambitions. However, put such ambition on hold for now. You belong to a political party that has only one ambition that is above every other ambition, which is the re-election of President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election.

“So, the major purpose of this meeting is to ensure that the nomination of President Tinubu as the only presidential candidate of the APC in the forthcoming election is our number one priority.”

The RHA local government coordinators are Kuro Matthias Nyenye (Nembe), Dr. Godson Torukuru (Yenagoa), Uroh Kiani (Brass) and Biewari Orupeighe (Southern Ijaw)
Others are High Chief Okubokakpo Ombu (Sagbama), Chief Ebinyo Turner (Ogbia), Tonye Isenah (Kolokuma/Opokuma) and Orubebe Ogeibiri (Ekeremor).

Diri also announced committees to oversee the party’s ward congresses.

For Brass, members of the committee are the Speaker of the State Assembly, Abraham Ingobere, Sunny Goli, and Victor Sam-Ateki.
Ekeremor has the Minister of State for Petroleum (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri; Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, Michael Ogbere; former deputy governor, Peremobowei Ebebi; Chief Fidelis Agbiki, and Tari Porri as members.

Chief Isaac Kumokou (KOLGA Constituency 1) and Dr. Tarilah Tebepah (KOLGA Constituency 2) are in charge of Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Council.
In Nembe, the committee has the APC acting state chairman, Dr. Dennis Otiotio, Senator Degi Eremienyo, former deputy governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John-Jonah (rtd) as well as Ebi Ben-Ololo and Oteigbanyo Braah as members.

Ogbia has Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development commission, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku; Senator Benson Agadaga and Gabriel Ogbara as members; while the members for Sagbama are the Managing Director, Niger Delta Basin Development Commission, Prince Ebitimi Amgbare; the Chief of Staff, Government House, Dr. Peter Akpe, and Chief Kemi Prefa.

The ward congress committee for Southern Ijaw has as members Senator Konbowei Benson, Rodney Ambaiowei, Monday Obolo-Bubou, the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Nimibofa Ayawei, and Chief David Lyon while Yenagoa has a former acting governor and former Speaker of the State Assembly, Chief Werinipre Seibarugu; Oforji Oboku, Dr. Gentle Emelah and Chief Boma Spero-Jack.

In his remarks, the chairman of the APC caretaker committee, Otiotio, said the party’s national secretariat had published the timetable for ward, local council, state congresses and the national convention.

He stated that the ward and local council congresses would hold on February 18 and 21 respectively while the state congress is slated for March 1, 2026.