THE All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Bayelsa State inconclusive election, Chief Timipre Sylva, has urged Bayelsa people and Nigerians to see this New Year as a new start in their individual and collective quests for development.

Sylva, in a New Year message issued by his Media Adviser, Doifie Buokoribo, in Yenagoa yesterday, called for improved peaceful coexistence among the people in this year and beyond and urged the people to eschew divisive tendencies.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), while wishing the people a prosperous New Year, he said, “as we welcome the New Year, we should embrace new hopes, new opportunities and new vistas it has for us as Bayelsans and Nigerians to stand out and fulfill our personal and collective destinies.

“Let us sincerely rededicate ourselves to the hopes and expectations of our founding fathers and steadfastly endeavour to uplift the welfare, peace and security of our people.We have a perfect opportunity to reboot and rebuild.

“We have come a long way as a state and as a country; we have crossed the bridges over many rivers and it has pleased mother nature to keep us together, despite our fault lines.

“So, it behoves on us to focus on issues that will sustain and strengthen our togetherness, rather than those that will destroy it.”