FORMER Governor of Plateau State, now a Senator representing Plateau North, Senator Jonah Jang, has stated that the north can only act as an entity if the interest of the Middle Belt is taking into consideration and appointments are not skewed in favour of any particular zone saying by right, the time has come for either the North East or North Central to produce the president of Nigeria.
Speaking with newsmen on Saturday in Jos, the former governor said it is time for those championing one north to demonstrate it by action and carry every parts of the north along in term of appointments and distribution of amenities.
“As politicians, we do so many things to advance our political interests, like you keep hearing presidency to the north, and one part of the north has cornered everything about the presidency and keep passing it from one person to another. I am hoping that somebody in the North East or North Central will come up strongly in PDP because the party has zoned presidency to the north. We are all northerners and by right, it is the turn of the Middle Belt to produce the next president of this country,” he said.
Senator Jang who said corruption should be fight with all energy added that it should be the responsibility of every patriotic Nigerians irrespective of political affiliations to fight with all sense of seriousness added that a situation where the fight is selective, success would be elusive.
Said he: Corruption should be fight with all energy; the fight should not be selective. Nigerians are wiser than before, we must not take them for granted. There are lots of former PDP governors who left PDP for APC, was it because they are not corrupt that they move to APC? Is it only us that finished with the former President Goodluck Jonathan and still in PDP that is corrupt? What about the serving APC governors and legislators. The fight should be holistic not selective, if the present administration wants success.”
On the gale of defection in the National Assembly from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressive Congress, the former governor said those that defected to the ruling party lack confidence and want readymade platform to prosecute their political ambitions adding that their movements have no serious effect on PDP.
“They lack confidence of the electorates, if they are leaders who won election based on grass root support, they should be able to hold their ground in their zones. Their movements have no effect on the fortune of PDP, they are just individual, and APC stalwarts may think they are gaining but the reality is that they dealing with unstable mind. Don’t be surprised, many of them would return to the PDP before 2019.”
Senator Jang who expressed confidence that PDP will overcome its problem added that elders of the party are working round the clock to resolve the impasse adding that political problem cannot be resolve through court but through dialogue, proper understanding of one another and also through genuine patrioticism and love.
He cautioned those fanning the crisis from outside especially the APC to be careful if actually they are democrats who love democracy adding that if PDP eventually crashed, APC will follow and there would be no democracy again in Nigeria. “Those sponsoring crisis in PDP should think twice and allow democracy to strife, Nigeria cannot be one party state”.
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