The State Chairman of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Honourable Bitrus Boyi Ngah has expressed appreciation to God and the good people of Plateau State for voting massively for his party the ADP which gave them the party to produce the first and only Senator under the platform of the party.
Bitrus Ngah disclosed this in an interview with selected journalists in Jos the Plateau State Capital on Tuesday 6th February 2023. He was reacting to what many residents in Plateau State have described as a ’48-Hour’ miracle which saw the emergence of the ADP Candidate, Prince Pam Mwadkon as winner of the Plateau North Senatorial Rerun, a party that was not considered in contention for the race before then. The returning Officer of the Senatorial Rerun, Prof Monday Chagok has declared the candidate of the APD, Prince Pam Mwadkon as the duly elected Senator after pulling 122,442 votes to defeat the candidates of the NNPP, APC and LP who came 2nd, 3rd and 4th with 53,980, 39,132 and 33,243 votes respectively.
INEC had delisted the PDP from participating in the rerun just hours to the polls. After supporters stormed the INEC Office in Jos demanding evidence of the inclusion of the PDP, which fell on deaf ears, the Youth Leader of the PDP’s campaign Joshua Hitler Pwajok openly declared that Supporters of the party went on to vote for the Senatorial Candidate of the APD Prince Pam Mwadkon and the Labour Party Bassa/Jos North Candidate Daniel Asama, since his party the PDP had been confirmed to have been excluded.
Reacting to the victory of the ADP to journalists, Bitrus Ngah in his own words said “We thank God, we thank the people of Plateau State, especially those from the northern senatorial district of Plateau state, all Plateau people resident and those that are voting within the zone. They really did a great job. We thank them for the support and we appreciate God for granting us victory. We give God the glory. We are happy, we are full of joy”.
“We have extended our happiness to the people of Plateau State who are equally celebrating with us and this is a victory that in the history of ADP they are getting a senator for the first time in the whole of Nigeria. That is one of the great thing that is giving us, giving us joy from the state to the national headquarters. All other states are celebrating Plateau State”.
“For this immediate change is a victory that we dedicate to the people of to the Almighty God and the people of Plateau State. And we want to assure them that this joy will extend to providing dividends or democracy to the Nuran zone and to the entire Plateau. We want to thank them irrespective of affiliations all came out and Mass and voted for ADP. We assure them that we will do our very best having their support”, he added.
He noted that the APD and the Senator Elect will continue with the good works that Senator Simon Mwadkon has started. “From campaigning to the polls to announcement, we will not let them down. We will do as much as possible to build on what is already on ground, especially where the predecessor of our own candidate stopped. We’ll do our very best to continue the good project he had already started and complete the ones that are ongoing, introduce new ones and then as well as implement and completing those new ones also”.
While lamenting security situation and the hardship in the country Hon Ngah said the Senator Elect will do his best to alleviate the suffering of his constituents. “We know, everybody know that the country today is facing economic challenges, economic challenges is in diverse ways. We want to pay attention to see that we alleviate the sufferings of the people”.
“We want to pay attention to the area of security, which is very, very key because the essence of government is to protect lives and property. Any bill, I said any bill you are portraying or you are presenting on behalf of the people if it doest not secure their lives and their property that bill is not a bill that people should celebrate. So the most important thing and the number one thing that we are going to do as a party is to encourage and mobilize, to support our senator elect, to ensure that the security of life of people within this zone and the state is being given adequate attention, proper attention, so that people will sleep with their two eyes closed. Because without this all the celebration we are doing is just with it to just end in futility. So our utmost desire is to make sure that plateau people do not feel bad voting us into power”.
He said that they will focus on agriculture as a veritable means to ensure food security. “We are going to look at the area of agriculture”. He conclude
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