<figure id="attachment_3291669" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3291669" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3291669 size-full" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/338a4945-johnical-rayong-ngipa-ig-260226-1.webp" alt="" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3291669" class="wp-caption-text">PDP vice-president Johnical Rayong Ngipa wants to see Engkilili being elevated from a sub-district to a full administrative district. (Instagram pic)</figcaption></figure>
PETALING JAYA: Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) vice-president Johnical Rayong Ngipa intends to defend his Engkilili seat for a fifth term in the next Sarawak state election, citing unfinished business in the area.
Rayong said he wanted to see Engkilili being elevated from a sub-district to a full administrative district, adding that this would boost the Sri Aman area&#8217;s development, Borneo Post reported.
&#8220;My heart is still with the people of Engkilili. We have laid the groundwork over the last 20 years, but the journey isn’t over,&#8221; he said.
Rayong first won the Engkilili seat in 2006 with the now-defunct Sarawak National Party, wresting the seat from Barisan Nasional.
He later joined the Sarawak United People&#8217;s Party (SUPP) and retained the seat under the then Sarawak BN component in 2011, before defending Engkilili again in 2016 as a direct BN candidate.
In 2018, he quit BN to join Wong Soon Koh&#8217;s Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB) and went on to defend the seat for a fourth term in the 2021 state polls.
PSB was dissolved in 2024 and absorbed into PDP, which is a component of ruling state coalition Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS).
In the 2021 polls, Rayong won the seat with a 1,191-vote majority ahead of his closest contender, a GPS candidate from his former party SUPP.

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