By Muhammad Tanko Shitttu
Jos
Elder statesman and former Nigeria’s ambassador to Switzerland, Ambassador Yahaya Kwande, yesterday warned that Governor Jonah Jang’s tactics of instilling fear amongst his colleagues within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had “a dangerous repercussion for democracy.”
Kwande was reacting to a statement credited to Governor Jonah Jang during his visit to the PDP headquarters in Abuja in which he said the state would deliver all votes to President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential elections.
Kwande, a founding father of the PDP before he eventually defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC), said: “Governor Jang has set himself as one-man governance; he dictates whatever he wants on the Plateau and he feels proud to such an extent that he feels there is no opposition. I am warning him, that it is more dangerous for him not to know who among his own colleagues in the PDP are interested in contesting for the governorship.”
The ambassador warned the governor to watch out for the APC as an opposition party in the state, stressing: “If he is thinks that there is no opposition in Plateau state because people are afraid of him, we in the APC are his opposition and what we are trying to do is to finish the convention; and when we finish it, then he will know whether there is opposition in Plateau state or not.”