Tonye Cole, the Rivers All Progressive Congress, APC, gubernatorial candidate has redeemed the fifteen million pledge he made to victims of fruits and vegetable market fire.
The market was razed down after a fire from an unknown source engulfed the area on September 27.
Rivers State government had said it will rebuild the market.
The traders were overwhelmed when Cole visited the market on Thursday.
There was jubilation when Cole presented a donation of fifteen million Naira to the traders, with a new promise to build a fireproof ultra modern market when he is voted in as Governor.
The member representing Port Constituency 1, in the Rivers State House of Assembly and House of Representative candidate for Port Harcourt Federal Constituency 1, Victoria Nyeche, while addressing the crowd, noted that Cole came back to redeem his promise because he is a man with integrity .
“Arc. Tonye Cole is a man who makes a promise and fulfils the promise,” she said.
On his part, the Director-General of Tonye Cole Campaign Organization, Chidi Lloyd, assured the traders that Cole is a harbinger of good things to come to the state from May 29, 2019, stressing that the State has gone comatose in the last three and half years arising from sustained systemic maladministration and therefore needs a man whose words are his bond to transform the fortunes of the state.
