I Will Contest Timonde Assembly Seat - Ndebugre

Former People's National Convention (PNC) Member of Parliament for Zebilla in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region, Mr John Ndebugri, has filed to contest to be elected assembly member for the Timonde electoral area in the Bawku West District of the Upper East region.

He said his decision was strategic; designed to help strengthen the local council of the area. “We need to improve the quality of debate at the assembly level if we want to lift the people and reduce poverty and so on.

So I want to go into the assembly and assist the community fight poverty,” he said. He also said that he would not refuse to contest the Zebilla parliamentary seat if the New Patriotic Party (NPP) members in the constituency see him as good material to stand.

“I now belong to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and if the members of the New Patriotic Party in the Zebilla Constituency decide to nominate me to be their candidate for the party in 2012, I will not refuse to contest,” he said in an interview.

John Ndebugri is now a member of the opposition NPP, after defecting from the PNC in November, 2009. Mr Ndebugri, until his official defection to the NPP, lost as an independent parliamentary candidate in the Zebilla Constituency in the 2008 elections to majority leader Cletus Avoka.

Asked if he did not find his interest in the assembly election as a demotion, Mr Ndebugri said it could not be a demotion because being elected was an opportunity to serve the people.