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2019: Ned Nwoko Says He’II Defeat Nwaoboshi To Emerge PDP Delta North Senator

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A one time member of the National Assembly, Prince Chinedu Mumir Nwoko, has declared that he will defeat incumbent Senator Peter Nwaoboshi to represent the good people of Delta North Senatorial District under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) come 2019.

Nwoko stated this when addressing members of Delta Online Publishers Forum, DOPF on Sunday, November 12, 2017, in his Country home in Idumeje-Ugboko.

The astute politician and philanthropist, said that his intention to contest is to provide the people of Delta North a capacity representation, as the area presently lacks proper representation.

Prince Nwoko said that he will provide the needed capacity to develop the senatorial district and the entire state.

According to him, the state, and the Delta North especially had suffered because of the lack of capacity representation.

Ned Nwoko, as he popularly known, said that just as no one is presently given him the chance, so also people never gave president Buhari and his friends the chance, as it was done to Donald Trump in America.

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The politician who said he was the architect of the Paris Refund, and had during his time in the house donated his allowances for four years to the welfare of others, said as the election is fast approaching, and like any other politician he is working out the winning strategies to first get the party nomination, when the time comes, which he said is to pick the form, and work on the delegates.

“I am contesting for the senate to represent Delta North, and no one can say there is no Vacancy, there is vacancy for other possible aspirants”, he said.

The man, who many for weeks had been speculating may be pitching his tent with the opposition, All Progress Congress, APC, said that he will be running under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as he never had the intention to represent his people under any other political platform.

“I will be contesting the senate under the no other party, but the Peoples Democratic Party”.

He appealed to party members from the district that when the lid is opened for election process to begin they should make the right choice.

Prince Nwoko, who is very confidence that if the right thing is done said he is a fighter of good things, and he is ready to fight for the state, and the people of Delta North, as he confidently said, adding, “I will be your Senator, come 2019”.

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Also speaking on the controversy on the palliative measures to mitigate the pains of travellers who use the Onitcha Ugbo –Idumuje-Ugboko road that take travellers to the northern part of the country from Delta, the East and South South, said that there is a working relationship between the two, to ensure that that road is fixed.

According to him, what they had been able to do is to approach the managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to take over the road repair of about 2km distance.

Prince Nwoko pointed that though the commission could not carry out the work in their 2017 budget, they had promise to ensure the 2018 budget will reflect the road project. But to ensure that the pains of users of the road is arrested, they had approached a well know Construction Company in the state, ULO to fix the road, which will begin soon.

He pointed though, that for them to get the consent of the company to work on the road, they have to sign an agreement to pursue the payment of the project with NDDC, and if that fails they will take care of the payment.

“We have to approach ULO to repair the bad portion of the road, we have to sign an indemnity agreement to ensure the money will be paid by the commission in the 2018 budget, but if it fails we have to bear the cost.”

He however used the occasion to clear the air between him and the Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr Emmanuel Ibe Kachukwu, saying that he was not in any fight with the minister.

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While congratulating the members of the Forum for a successful inauguration, and apologising for his absence because of other engagements outside the country assured them of good working relationship, and pleaded that they be focused and report issues in objectively, either politically or otherwise.

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