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The All Progressives Congress contest for Cross River North Senate turned into a three-way fight as business law scholar and farmer Dr. John Onyi-Agaba entered the race against former Gov. Ben Ayade and incumbent Sen. Jarigbe Agom.
Dr. Onyi-Agaba announced his intention to vie for the Cross River North Senatorial Ticket on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in Cross River State.
The senatorial hopeful cited poverty and underdevelopment in the district as the motivating factor for his decision to vie for the ticket insisting that the district needs to chart a new path to its development.
According to him, “As a people, are we doing better? Not at all. You see, when we hide behind the curtains of pretence, we won’t experience growth. But when we face facts, when we see things and discuss things holistically, we will produce positive results.
“Do we have a functional primary health centre that we can successfully carry out a major surgery in the whole district? No. Are you telling me that it’s not achievable? It is. It’s very possible.
“For a young man like me, who have gone through the hurdles of life, I want to see if I can help my people in my own little way. And by so doing, I want to go represent them”, he said.
He also stressed that former governor Prof. Ben Ayade and Senator Jarigbe Agom have done well for the district and are excellent leaders but the district needs a change.
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He said accountability is fundamental in his desire to serve and also his major selling point and he wants to be held to account by his people.
On zoning, he said power is not based on sentiment, neither is it given but it is taken, saying he is out to take power not through violence but through diplomacy.
