Plateau senator: I’ve done well for my people, anyone eyeing my seat won’t succeed

Senator representing Plateau North, Istifanus Dung Gyang, says anyone eyeing his seat will not succeed.

Gyang, who is the deputy chairman, Senate Committee on Defence, said this during the Solar Power training and empowerment of over 400 youths with N30,000 each, on Monday.

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The senator said he had done well for his constituency and deserved another term.

He, however, explained that during the training which would be undertaken by National Centre for Hydropower Research and Development, Energy Commission of Nigeria, University of Ilorin, youths would be taught how to repair and maintain Solar Power light installed to fight insecurity in rural communities.

He said he would not allow poverty and darkness to overwhelm Plateau people.

According to him, “The poverty index of Nigeria as a poverty capital of the world has to change. It has to change by the impact of not just government but the corporate bodies, the private sector and our capacities as representatives of the people.

“This is why I have taken series of empowerment programmes consecutively in November and December 2021 to put seed in the hands of our youths so that they can invest to start a trade and to talk to our youths so that they can be more resourceful.

“Our youths need to deploy their abilities and capacities to take advantage of opportunities and possibilities that are abound in our nation.

“The target group for today is the youths and this is the most vulnerable group that poverty is attacking. We cannot leave our youths to become captives of poverty, captives of the devil and captives of darkness; as long as I am here we will invade darkness with light.”

Former Chief of Staff, Government House Jos, Da. Francis Bot lauded Gyang and urged them not to spend the money given to them for Christmas celebrations, but use it to come up with a means of livelihood.