Plateau: Stakeholders divided over PDP, APC gov candidates

Politics of 2015 has divided Plateau stakeholders into two camps. While Northern stakeholders led by elder statesman and former Minister of sports, Damishi Sango, are drumming support for Senator Gyang Pwajok of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Stakeholders from the southern part of the state led by Ambassador Yahaya Kwande have pledged to support the governorship candidature of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Simon Lalong, in the forthcoming February elections.

Sango, Saturday Independent gathered early this week, led a group of Plateau stakeholders to Senator Pwajok at his Korinjo House campaign office in jos to promise him of victory in the elections.

The former Minister of Sports and his political associates, Saturday independent gathered, have embarked on tour of the state to drum support for Pwajok while other stakeholders cutting across six local government areas of the southern zone of the state at a meeting in Jos on Thursday, resolved to team up with the APC governorship candidate, Lalong.

The southern stakeholders in a communique after an extensive discussion on political situation in a statement read by its chairman, Ndam Gambo, condemn the PDP governorship primaries whose outcome did not produce a candidate from the southern senatorial zone.

The statement said: “This forum condemns in strong terms the so-called endorsement of the PDP candidate by some self-appointed elders purportedly on behalf of the elders of Plateau State and requests all the good people of the state to distant themselves from this group of elders.”