Dogara noted that nothing could sell the party faster and wider than providing tools of empowerment for Nigerians to thrive in their businesses and daily lives through provision of infrastructure and other needs as promised by the party. Commenting on how Delta and other opposition states can be captured by the APC in 2019, the speaker explained, “a better way of getting there will be that in all the APC states, the APC controlled federal government is able to deliver on its promise. ‘If we are able to do that, you may not even have to suffer, you may not even have to pool resources, you may not even have to campaign, it will just come automatically that these crops of people are serious, who will deliver on the mandate and because it’s been done elsewhere, if we give them the opportunity in Delta State as well, they can replicate that.” “We know that rebuilding infrastructure is key because only free, empowered citizens can actually contribute in a democracy. That is what democracy is all about, freedom to pursue happiness and how do you pursue happiness when you do not have the tools to do that? he asked. ‘And so I believe that as soon as the budget gets underway, the kind of pains that we see right now will lessen and we should be able to deliver on the promise of change, which will lift Delta APC to a new pedestal.” “If APC is able to surmount these challenges, if we are able to find pathways through them and Nigerians can see that yes, not only the visions that we have articulated but we have been able to deliver on these, to be candid, we would have risen the status of this party to a level where we can take the centre stage and still take all the other states that we don’t have control over right now. We know the potentials that you hold within the boundaries of that state and to be candid, it is a state that every serious government at the centre will want to have”, he said. Also, Dogara commended the group for planning way ahead of the elections and noted that “without vision the people perish and maybe if we’ve been in opposition for too long and not been able to wrestle power from the mainstream, it may be that the parties were not well articulated and that is why I love the fact that you are beginning to put your house in order well ahead of time. “And I added that one thing with vision is that it gives you a destination and once you have a destination, you know the roads or the pathways that will take you to that destination. And so with this vision and a defined path, I’m a hundred percent sure that by the grace of God, we will get there”, Dogara further said..]]>