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| Plateau State Governor, Mr. Jonah Jang |
Six former commissioners and some party
chieftains under the administration of Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau
State have defected from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to the
opposition All Progressives Congress.
The six commissioners, who were received
into the APC at the commencement of the governorship campaign rally of
the APC by its governorship candidate in Jos, Mr. Simeon Lalong on
Thursday, included a former Commissioner for Information, Mr. Nuhu
Gagara; Special Duties, Mr. Danny Ajik; Environment, Nankin Bagudu;
Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Benehel Andong; Agriculture,
Mr. Na-Allah Mutbam, and Special Adviser, Media, Mr. Dan Manjang.
They were joined by the former PDP
governorship aspirant, Prof. Longmas Wapmuk and Mr. Godfrey Miri, and a
former Minister of State for Sciences and Technology, Mrs. Pauline
Tallen.
Speaking at the rally, Lalong, while
bemoaning the debt profile of the state which he put at over N100bn,
said that there was the need to rescue the state from total collapse.
He promised to lay a solid foundation for the development of the state.
Lalong said if elected into office, he
would ensure that salaries of civil servants as the engine room of
government were paid as and when due. Besides, he said creation of job
opportunities for the youth would be his cardinal project.
Speaking on behalf of the defectors,
Gargara said his group was made up of men and women of integrity who had
worked at various times and in various capacities in Jang
administration for the progress of Plateau State and Nigeria as a whole.
“In the light of the above, we have
decided to jump out of the sinking ship of the PDP and have therefore
decided to declare for the APC. We have decided to work for the victory
of the APC at all the elections in the state and at the federal level,”
he said.
He said the group also intended to use
its platform to break the religious tag of the APC as a party of Muslims
which “some mischievous people’’ were using to confuse the people of
Plateau State.
Meanwhile, Jang has said that the APC
Presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), committed a
lot of atrocities against politicians when he was the military Head of
State.
He said Buhari’s negative records would
speak against him at the forthcoming presidential poll. Jang assured
President Goodluck Jonathan that the state would vote massively for the
PDP in the forthcoming elections.
He stated this in Barkin Ladi Local Government of the state during the PDP campaign rally.
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