APGA: Accountability, my watch word, if elected – Chief Bright Ndah
By David Ejiohuo
The All Progressive Congress Grand Alliance candidate for the Rivers East Senatorial District, Chief Bright Ndah, has vowed to be accountable to the people if elected into office.
Chief Ndah, a Real Estate Consultant and an Industrialist, made the vow when he spoke with out correspondent in Port Harcourt.
The APGA Senatorial candidate noted that the era when elected officials failed to account to their electors is over, saying he would like to be known as “Mr Accountability.”
Chief Ndah explained that about 90% of those elected by Rivers people to serve at the National Assembly failed to live up to expectation, especially in the area of rendering accounts of their stewartship.
Saying what they did was in no way worthy of emulation, the APGA candidate declared, “If by the grace of God, and I know that I will be elected, I will like to bear the name, Mr, Accountability “.
Ndah who is from Rebisi Kingdom in the Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State assured that as a first step towards giving the electorate a sense of belonging, he would institute periodic town hall meetings.
He said he believed that the town hall meetings would enable him provide an account of stewartship and give him the opportunity to hear directly from his constituents.
“This town hall meetings will yield many results in that it will serve as a forum for me to account to them, hear from them and be known by my people.”
He promised to shun what he described as “the old order” where your people only cited their representatives in “tinted cars” and “on television”.
On the chances of the party’s flag bearer in the state, the Senatorial candidate described Prince Ugo Beke as the best in the race.
He said that the APGA gubernatorial candidate was arguably one of the tested hands in the State in the area of human and material resource management.
“Prince Ugo will win”, Ndah added, “because of his person and that speaks for him in the State and beyond.”