Senator Murray-Bruce Withdraws From Senatorial Race

Ben Murray-Bruce

The administrator speaking to Bayelsa East voting public in the National Assembly, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has pulled back from the senatorial race. 

In an announcement on his Facebook page, the media tycoon said thanks to previous President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Uche Secondus. 

The announcement peruses to some degree: "It is without uncertainty that I have endeavored to release my obligations as an official and delegate of my kin respectably to the best of my capacity up until this point. 

"My voice has been boisterous on the issues that issues to our kin and our nation at unsurpassed. 

"My help to our gathering, my kin and state government is verifiable. I am lowered that the national administration of my gathering upheld by the State part in valuation for my endeavors offered to help my re-decision to the senate to proceed with my administration. 

"I have likewise escalated discussions over the most recent multi week throughout which I have come to understand a current neighborhood rotational course of action of more than 20 years starting with the late Great Chief Melford Okilo, by which game plan the Senatorial seat turns per nearby government territory among the three boards for a long time in the Senatorial District. 

"Indeed, even with the help of my gathering at the National and state levels with the full support of my state government and administration, as a man of respect intrigued by the prosperity of my kin, I thus report my withdrawal from the Senatorial race. 

"I don't need whatever motivation to seem to have utilized my advantaged position and impact to do anything that other than the prosperity and the strength and the benefit of the general population. I am in these for the general population, not for myself. 

"By and by, I thank the previous President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, my associates in the Senate and Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honorable Henry Seriake Dickson for their help and support."