Senator Gyang: Anyone against my 2023 ambition will go down

Senator Istifanus Gyang representing Plateau North in the National Assembly has declared that anyone against his ambition to return to the 10th Assembly in 2023 ‘will go down.’

Gyang, who was elected into office in 2019 as a first-time lawmaker on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, made the declaration on Monday while speaking at a solar empowerment program that he organized for 400 youths drawn from his constituency.

The senator said, “I want to thank Plateau North for entrusting this mandate in my hands. This mandate is for the empowerment and uplift of my people and by the Grace of God, this mandate will transcend to the 10th Assembly. Anyone that dares the ever-winning mandate will go down for it.”

Sen. Istifanus Gyang however, urged youths in his constituency to focus on solar power production and maintenance skills.

Gyang said the National Hydropower Research and Development Energy Commission of Nigeria would train the beneficiaries of the program.

He urged the beneficiaries to be resourceful and build their capacities.

The lawmaker said that it was in their capacities as representatives of the people to empower their constituencies with the necessary skills to make them self-reliant.

“And that is why you have seen that consecutively in the last two months I have undertaken these series of empowerment.

“To give seed to our people so that they can invest in something that can help them to be self-reliant.

“Something that can give them a head start and to talk to our youths so that they can get to be more resourceful and deploy their capacities and their abilities.

“That they should take advantage of opportunities and possibilities that are bound in the constituency in our nation,” he said.

He urged the participants to take advantage of every opportunity that was available.

Gyang stated that youths were the target group for the current phase of his empowerment because the youths were the most vulnerable group that the devil and poverty were attacking.

Member, Plateau State House of Assembly, Mr. Timothy Dantong, in his remarks, commended the senator for taking it upon himself to empower his constituents and the people of Plateau North.

Dantong, who represents Riyom State Constituency said: “As a people, we have a duty to appreciate a Senator for what he is doing.

“There are a lot of young people who are looking up to hear someone encourage them to go into business and not have anyone, but you have the opportunity today.

“I want to encourage all of you who are participants, to do the best you can to make us proud by making good use of these resources,” he said.

Mr Dung Gyang, one of the participants, commended the lawmaker for the training and for giving them N30, 000 each to take off.