Attai Audu Jos
Plateau born auto business mogul
Chief Kefas Wungak Ropshik on Monday formally declared his interest to contest for the position of the Governor of Plateau State come 2023 .
Addressing newsmen at Jos NUJ Press centre on Monday, Chief Ropshik said time has come to allow people like him with private sector back ground to lead the people of Plateau State.
According to him, he has what it takes in using his net work in business circle to bring investors to Plateau to better the lots of citizens of Plateau State.
Chief Ropshik disclosed that he has a lot to offer the people of his state to make them less dependent on government but to become self reliant as state civil servants salaries when paid can’t take them in running their homes for more than a week before they become broke.
Ropshik challenged his fellow Governorship Aspirants in his state to tell the people of Plateau what they have done all these years to better their lives that makes them now think they have what it takes to aspire to become the next governor of the state come 2023.
According to him, his people-centred philanthropic gestures have touched all facets of lives on the Plateau.
According to him, ” I Ropshik has what it takes to make Plateau a tourism hub through development of the state’s tourism potentials by replicating what he has seen and experienced in other parts of the world on the Plateau.
Chief Ropshik added as a businessman, he has done excellently well in providing humanitarian aid to his people on the Plateau, especially widows, orphans and the less privileged .
” As one of Nigeria’s most successful automobile merchants in a highly competitive industry, time has come for me to provide purposeful leadership for my people on the Plateau” Ropshik added.
He called on the PDP stakeholders in Plateau State to ensure the realization of his Governorship dream as the party primaries is slated for this month of May in the state.
He added that as some one whom God has raised from a humble background, he understands the predicaments of the poorest of the poor and the most vulnerable among the people of his State and that if given the opportunity to become Plateau next governor, he would turn around the economic fortunes of the people on the Plateau.
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