Governor-elect for Northern Gary Juffa is happy that his people of Northern Province have re-elected him for the third term so he can change his province.
Mr Juffa said upon arrival on Friday that his fundamental concern was reforms.
“This was something I wanted to undertake in the second term but I couldn’t do so because I was in the opposition.
“I had to work together with other like-minded members of parliament to remove an oppressive government and we are firmly in charge.
“We were able to carry out the work that needed to be done and that includes, major reforms continuing, our work with the major conservation programmes, in Afore, Kokoda and Tufi.
“We intend to develop another conservation area in Kokoda and a marine biodiversity project in Tufi.
“These are major programmes that we are going to progress with our development partners and international organisations,” he said.
Mr Juffa said another area was law and order in Northern which plans to address.
Also a new project is the connect Oro programme linking the forgotten places.
“We are already punching a road through to Musa, Kira will be next followed by Ioma.
“We can do this now because we are part of the James Marape government and we are proud of that.
“He is a leader who listens, who is considerate of the concerns of all leaders and is concerned about his country and that’s why we support him.”
“The country needs to give him the benefit of a full term so he can answer a lot of the critics.”
Commenting on his victory Mr Juffa said: “I feel good, I want to thank the people of Oro, we ran a peaceful safe election.”
“Despite frustrations and difficulties, the security forces, the administration, the electoral commission did a magnificent job.”
Mr Juffa, on the 44th exclusion collected 1,942 to reach 24,283 past absolute majority of 21,969.
Runner-up Jean Parkop collected 1,830 votes and her final tally was 19,654.
