{"id":26200,"date":"2018-09-10T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T11:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=26200"},"modified":"2018-09-10T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T11:44:40","slug":"house-of-representatives-aspirant-to-attract-federal-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/house-of-representatives-aspirant-to-attract-federal-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"House Of Representatives Aspirant To Attract Federal Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">By Amos Odeh<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">An aspirant for the Nembe -Brass Federal constituency, Helen Bob says the constituency needs a vibrant and eloquent representative that can lobby and articulate the views of her constituents to attract federal presence which\u00a0 lacking.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Hon Helen Bob who is contesting under the platform of the People Democratic Party ( PDP ) spoke to journalist amidst mammoth crowd when she went to submit her nomination and expression of interest form at the PDP secretariat in Yenagoa.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">According to Helen Bob, a former chairperson of Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa state said has not only decided to contest, but to change the jinx since the advent of democracy in 1999 it had been only males that had occupied the position and they have not satisfied the yearnings and aspirations , hence she was approached by her people to go and change the narratives. She said despite the economic importance of Nembe- Brass\u00a0 as an oil producing areas present and successive\u00a0 federal governments had denied it development, and representatives had not been able to attract any federal presence\u00a0 due to poor representation . &#8221; the House of Representatives is a place you go to agitate , legislate and lobby your colleagues to provide the needs of your people &#8221; she said .<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">On violence\u00a0 during elections in Nembe &#8211; Brass Federal Constituency , she said as a mother she decried the use of violence to be elected , stressing that she is an advocate of peaceful, free and fair election, adding that most politicians involved in violence were people whose children are very young and tender and no parents would encourage their children to indulge in violence and other electoral malpractice . &#8221; As a woman we have been advising our children against violence, those who clamour for violence are those people probably with children at the kindergarten and not those whose children are adult &#8220;<\/div>\n<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Amos Odeh An aspirant for the Nembe -Brass Federal constituency, Helen Bob says the constituency needs a vibrant and eloquent representative that can lobby and articulate the views of her constituents to attract federal presence which\u00a0 lacking. 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