Governor for Enga Sir Peter Ipatas has thanked the opposition and the people of Papua New Guinea for their supporting in trusting him to be the alternate Prime Minister in the Vote of No Confidence (VONC) against Prime Minister James Marape. Although the VONC was unsuccessful in 89 votes in favor of PM Marape and 16 in favor of Sir Ipatas, he still thanked everyone who supported him during this time. “Thank you for your support and confidence that after serving Enga Province for a long-time people still supported me to be the alternate PM Nominee. I want to take this opportunity to inform Parliament that I would have not accepted the nomination if honorable members of this house did not express their dissatisfaction with the performance of the Prime Minister. I also want to ask our leaders to be leaders, and we must not be like ladies who gossip a lot. I heard the cry and the dissatisfaction from our leaders and accepted the nomination. I also realize that we have problems and people of this country were crying for some sort of change,” Sir Ipatas said. He said it was not easy for him to accept the nomination, but he had to do it for Papua New Guinea. “I have no regrets of accepting the nomination, I still support Prime Minister James Marape and I congratulate him for continuing his role as PM. As PM Marape rightfully stated, his putting his time and efforts trying to make this country great and it's about time ministers and leaders of coalition government stop the gossiping but be open and talk to the Prime Minister about the issues we have in the country for our people,” Sir Ipatas said. Sir Ipatas said this country belongs to all of us and our people and it was hard, but he accepted the nomination. “We have a lot of issues in the country; hence, I accepted the nomination, but I still support Prime Minister Jame Marape,” he added.