As the 2023 General elections draw nearer, a front-line Governorship Aspirant under the Platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State, a business Mogul and Philanthropist, Chief Kefas Ropshik fondly called ‘Kefiano’ has harped on the need for credible leadership in Plateau State.
He made the disclosure during his official declaration for the number one position of the State at the PDP Secretariat in Jos, the State Capital.
According to the Business Mogul, Plateau State is in dire need of a credible leader who understand what it takes to transform the economy of the State and enhance its prosperity.

He said he is joining the robust array of contestants to vie for this seat and hope on the people’s voice will give victory that will be for the people and, for a new and productive Plateau.

He said having researched the prevailing State’s challenges and realized they are requiring urgent and committed attention to handle them with the ‘bottom-top’ global development approach, he came to the conclusion that, at this particular moment in the history of the Plateau and Nation, it will be a dangerous disservice to the State and the people, to allow themselves to be lured into giving their votes to some candidates who may not really have the requisite capacity to impact on the people again.

“Nature will not forgive us for not taking a strong stand to ensure that the downturn of the economy, education and social development status in spite of vast endowment naturally and in human resource is stopped by the coming administration. And this job cannot be done by personalities whose only pedigrees can just be fitted in administration and money management. This has been the case over the years and it has not helped us. This can be one of the biggest mistakes that has resulted in putting Plateau as a highly dependent state on the federation account or nothing”

“I grieve for the prevailing moment of wide unemployment, lack of employability amongst our graduates, massive poverty and pains within families, mass security challenges, wide young person’s vulnerability to avoidable crime and vices due to idleness, total neglect for the innovative and creative young Plateau persons in entertainment, digital technology, health sector, etc. a widespread hopelessness amongst the people in the grass root and urban areas. Just to mention a few”

“The State would require a personality that has created and sustained wealth one that has a deep understanding of the prevailing challenges and enough closeness to the grassroots to provide a truly holistic development” he said.

He disclosed that the call for him to contest is mostly based on his record in surmounting corporate, social, societal and economic challenges as a private achiever and entrepreneur who is very conversant with job creation, care for the less privileged and vulnerable persons in the rural and urban areas of this Nation and Plateau state in particular.

“I hereby offer myself team lead, to jump start the rebuilding of a new Plateau with capacity to develop her industrial based to provide jobs, export finished products from available natural resource base, as state income, build the up vast streams of income in entertainment, tourism and hospitality. Provide quality education, such that is compatible with global standards and relevance in globally viable skills” he hinted.

His intention for the State and some of his philanthropic gestures are captured below:

MY VISION OF THE EMERGING A NEW PLATEAU

• THE NEW Plateau of mass jobs and wealth for the youth
• It is massive industrialization of the State.
• It is the export for external income for the state.
• It is quality education for viability and relevance in the 4th industrial era.
• It is peace and security amongst people of divide and hurt within the security issues prevalent on the Plateau.
• It is good salary for the productive and hardworking civil servants.
• Massive international investments in our local communities.
• It is beautification and sanitation of the rural and urban areas of the state.
• The creative industry will become global standards by harnessing the creators of music, theatre, comedy and the entire entertainment industry on the Plateau. Especially with a deliberate effort to promote and sustain various cultural endowments across the state through competition that will be supervised by local and international experts and institution.

MY PEDIGREE AS A SERVANT AND PHILANTHROPIST

✓ I was a loyal and profound SERVANT at Benue State University Makurdi, Benue state and became outstanding in my duty and still an example to others there.

✓ I run a not-for-profit and non-governmental organisation known as Kefiano Global Foundation-KGF, which has impacted many children across the state in psychosocial, educational, health, accommodational and various care issues.

✓ I specially support 2000 widows annually on basic care needs

✓ I continually adopt orphaned and vulnerable children, due to crisis on the Plateau in my orphanage and home.

✓ So far, I have conducted free and qualitative medical outreach programs which include treatments for over 59 thousand people across the state and comprehensive surgeries for over 3,900 persons across the state. This free medical treatments were carried out by 32 doctors/specialists from Plateau and in diaspora.

✓ I personally facilitated the release of 127 prisoners from the Jos correctional facilities.

✓ I specially support Internally Displaced Persons -IDPs with relief materials and other care stuffs.

✓ I am industrially conscious and ready to cut down all wastes of the State’s resources in unproductive ventures and obligations.

✓ I am a graduate of mass communication and have a wide network of economic, social and global relationships to bring Plateau to the world stage for the best reasons.

✓ Those who are close to me, would agree with me that I am highly detribalized and non-bias in carrying out all my endeavors.

✓ I specially state here, that I respect our traditional institutions and values.

✓ I am an employer of labor and currently I have over one hundred workers under my payroll and still growing.

MY PLEDGE

If given the mandate, we will work with the civil society, women groups, corporate organisations, professional bodies, digital development platforms, Agro allied groups, commerce and trade organisations, international development and donor organisations and the united nations bodies, etc to ensure we build the Plateau of our dream. The new Plateau.

As I indicate my interest to contest today, I want to request for the party to rally round my candidacy to put the party on the side of progress and the State on the winning side during my tenure.

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Plateau 2023: Chief Kefas Ropshik “Kefiano” Says Right Leadership Needed For a Prosperous Plateau State