Ben Murray-Bruce, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Silverbird Group, has declared his intention to contest for the Senate in 2015. Murray-Bruce, addressing his people in Brass local government area of Bayelsa State on Monday, lamented the level of neglect in the area by the government.
The former Director General of the Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, said he would be hoping to be at the National Assembly in 2015 representing the people of Bayelsa East Senatorial District.
Speaking at the event, Murray-Bruce declared that, “I am running for the Senate because I am interested in the laws of our land; I am interested in making change and I am not interested in business as usual.”
The Silverbird Group boss disclosed that he would be contesting for the Senate under the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. He will be hoping to defeat Senator Barigha Amange and Clever Ikisipo for the party’s ticket.
He told the people that if voted in, he would tackle poverty in the land. “I have always been concerned about the poverty of the mind, about women who are not being protected, children who are being molested, men who are paedophiles, a society where there is no order, we must bring order to our society.
“There are too many poor people living under the bridge. Nigeria is too rich for people to be poor and Nigeria is too poor for the super upper class to be so rich. That has to stop.”
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