*Enjoins party faithful to leverage on party’s public acceptability.

As the buildup to the 2023 general elections gathers momentum, political parties across the country are making in-house preparations that could accelerate their political fortunes in the coming general elections.

In Rivers State, a strong contender for the governorship seat in the state, the Accord Party has also moved to reposition itself for massive victory at the March 11, 2023 gubernatorial battle.

This was evident as it held elections to produce an executive for its Eleme Local Government Area chapter, an exercise which its State Chairman, Chief Nnanna Onyekwere said was done pursuant to a directive by the national executive of the party.

Speaking at the event, the gubernatorial candidate of the Accord Party in Rivers State and frontline businessman, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, commended the Eleme LGA chapter of the party for their overwhelming turnout, describing it as a testament of their dissatisfaction with the prevailing political and economic situations.

He said the Accord Party is a platform poised to entrench credible leadership in the state that will in turn ensure an even spread of development across the state, described the 2023 general elections as a must win for the party, enjoining party faithful to leverage on the acceptability of the party in the state to galvanize support at the grassroots.

Chief Lulu-Briggs, who used the opportunity to commend the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for the novel innovations brought into our electoral laws, also charged the electorates to reflect on the challenges facing the country when casting their votes next year, asserting that the 2023 elections was a time for putting square pegs in square holes.

On his part, the candidate of the party for the Rivers State House of Assembly, Eleme Constituency, Godknows Osaro described Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs as “a philanthropist whose emergence as the gubernatorial candidate of the party has positioned the party for victory in the 2023 general elections”.

Speaking on behalf of the newly elected executive members of the party, Comrade Joseph Osarollor, who emerged chairman of the party in the LGA, conveyed the willingness of his team to work for the victory of the party in the coming elections.

The meeting, which held at the state party secretariat, had in attendance some traditional leaders, youth and women leaders, opinion leaders and students from Eleme LGA.