The wife of the immediate past Minister of State For Petroleum Resources and former Governor of Bayelsa State, Mrs. Alayingi Sylva, has had an interactive session with KeKe Riders at the APC Secretariat, Yenizue-Gene in Yenagoa .
Addressing a large crowd of Keke Riders at the party’s secretariat Conference Hall, Mrs. Alayingi Sylva urged them to support her husband win the Bayelsa Gubernatorial Election slated for November 11, 2023.
She stated that her husband, Chief Timipre Sylva, is on a rescue mission with the requisite experience, vast contact within and outside the country to attract development to the state.
Mrs Sylva assured that her husband will not ban Keke as means of transport in the state capital, but he will modernise the system in line with international best practices and urged them to get ready with their PVCs to vote massively for Chief Timipre Sylva to usher in a fresh breath of leadership in the state.
Earlier in her welcome remarks, the South South APC Zonal Women Leader, Hon. Mrs. Cynthia Asamaowei Princewill , enjoined the Keke Riders to identify with Chief Sylva who, she stated, understood the pains of Keke operators, while stating that the APC Bayelsa Guber Candidate valued the contributions made by tricyle operators to the growth of the state economy and will not ban Keke as a means of transportation but rather bring in new models.
She urged them to campaign for Chief Timipre Sylva to win the forthcoming Guber election in the state.
In their separate responses Chairman Edepie Keke Riders, Jonathan Ovie Achoro,, , Chairman Arewa Keke Riders Community in Yenagoa, Gift Muktari and Dominion who came into Bayelsa as a Youth Copper said the PDP Administration in Bayelsa State has concluded arrangement to ban Keke which he noted will throw over 19,500 Keke Riders out of business as they lack money to buy cars to be in business.
They hinted that when Sylva was Governor of Bayelsa State business was booming and are excited at his bit to contest the forthcoming election, and promised to galvanise grassroots support to actualise his ambition to occupy Creek Haven as governor.
