The lawmaker representing Burutu Federal Constituency, Julius Pondi, has been described as the best serving federal lawmaker since 1999.
The declaration was made on Tuesday by the Prime Minister of Tuomo Kingdom, High Chief Mike Loyibo, during the Peoples Democratic Party’s Ward-to-Ward Campaign in Tuomo Ward 3, Burutu local government area of Delta State.
Giving accolades to the lawmaker, Loyibo stressed that Burutu people only experienced true representation and lawmaking when they elected Pondi.
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He then stressed that the lawmaker must be returned to the Green Chambers to complete his unfinished projects, particularly the Federel College of Aquaculture Tuomo.
He said;
“From 1999 till date, no House of Representative member has done half of what Julius Pondi has done.
“Today, he has used his position to attract a tertiary institution to Tuomo kingdom. He must be returned to the Red Chamber to complete that institution for us,” he said.
Pondi was given the same accolade earlier in the year by former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe.
Expressing satisfaction with the lawmaker’s input towards attracting adequate dividends of democracy, Orubebe said;
“In all these years, there are some people that are in the national assembly that have never stood up to make one statement, but they keep electing them.
“And I want to tell all of you seated here today that from 1999 till date, there is no House of Reps member in Ijaw land that is as functional like himself (Pondi).
“Representation is what you do in the House. How you network in the House. How you speak and people listen to you. I’ve never seen his type. We have had them all over the place before, he is the most functional.”
