MAKURD –Â The Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Benue State has issued party flags to 14 candidates from the North East Senatorial district of the state expected to fly its flags in the 2019 elections.
This is even as Barnabas Gemade, the Senator representing the zone and also the party’s candidate for the 2019 elections in the zone, said he joined politics in order to emancipate the down-trodden.
He also appealed to the people of the zone to give him the last chance by voting him into office in 2019 to serve them before retiring from active politics.
Gemade made the appeal when he was presented the party’s flag by the National Vice Chairman of the party for North Central zone, Arch. Paul Uma, at LGEA Primary School, Ge-Mbagwa, Lessel, Ushongo Local Government Area (LGA) of the state the weekend.
Gemade explained that before he joined politics he was among those who ensured people of the zone were provided jobs and placed in advantageous positions.
He however lamented that when such people got to those positions, out of greed they converted all they got for themselves and their families, instead of making the benefits available for the general good of the people.
Worried by the development, Gemade disclosed that elders in the zone urged him to get into politics to salvage the situation.
Gemade used the occasion which also marked the official flag-off of his campaign declared that his track record of providing clinics, rehabilitation of roads, drilling of boreholes for his constituents spoke for him.
While he appealed to the people of Benue North East to give him the last chance to serve them, he urged Kwande people to prepare someone he would hand over the mantle of leadership to in 2023 before he bows out of active politics.
Gemade who served his first term as senator on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the second on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is taking his third shot at the seat on the platform of the SDP.
Speaking on behalf of the House of Representative candidate in the zone, Orlu Pawa, pledged the SDP would give the people of the zone quality representation if voted into power in 2019.
He stated that a former governor of the state, Moses Adasu, who won the election on the platform of the SDP also put up a superlative performance, adding that a SDP-led government would replicate the achievements of Adasu.
Earlier, State Chairman of SDP, John Enemari, warned that the party would not spare any party official in the state who engages in unwholesome activities.
He, however, advised candidates of the SDP in the state to show respect for party officials who are working tirelessly to ensure the victory of the party in the state.
Enemari also assured the people of the state to have faith in the SDP, pledging the party would not fail the people of the state.
In his remarks on the occasion, Stephen Hwande, the state SDP governorship candidate, vowed to take after the steps of the first Executive Governor of the state, Aper Aku, who made laudable achievements.
One Senatorial candidate, three House of Representatives candidates and 10 Houses of Assembly candidates from the zone got the nod of the party to fly the flags at the 2019 general elections.
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2019: 14 Candidates To Fly SDP Flags In Benue North East
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