Estranged friends of Governor Jonah Jang who have constituted a coalition to stop him from imposing a candidate on the state have warned that the PDP stands to lose Plateau state if Jang succeeds at the primaries with his plans.
Rising from a well attended meeting in Jos yesterday, the group which chooses to prosecute its struggle under the aegis of “Equity, Justice, and Fairness Group,” alerted the national leadership of the tension and looming crisis in the state as a result of the “political arbitrariness and distortion of precedence” by Governor Jang.
The group’s chairman and national confab returnee, Dakum Shown, said the claim by Jang that there is no zoning or rotation in the gubernatorial politics of the state is “false and unacceptable because Jang himself is a beneficiary of the zoning arrangement and understanding.”
According to the group, “Jang is not only attempting to mete out unmitigated political injustice on the other zones and stakeholders in the state, but plotting to hand over power to his nephew in a strange desire to establish Du hegemony in the general Plateau political space.”
Drawing the attention of President Jonathan to the unfolding events and the bitterness and strife they have already generated, the simply requests him to choose between Jang and Plateau State and its people.
Among those who attended the strategy, mobilisation, and sensitisation meeting were former speaker of the House of Assembly, Istifanus Mwansat, State House of Assembly information committee chairman, Diket Plang, former director general of the Jang campaign organisation, Danjuma Maina, Alhaji Umar Shittien, immediate past director general of the ITF, Longmas Wapmuk, former commissioners, local government chairmen, and aggrieved gubernatorial aspirants.