Attai Audu Jos
Chief Jerry Danjuma Gushop a seasoned Banker and Finance, Agric. Value chain Consultant has declared his interest to contest the 2023 governorship election in Plateau state under the people’s Democratic party platform
Chief Gushop in an interview with newsmen in Jos said his what his state needs now, is a well experienced person that has done NEEDS assessment of the state to be able to provide leadership that will meet the yearnings of the Plateau man .
According to him, unless someone has carried out a research on the challenges of the state before coming into power as a governor of the state, the person might end up performing worse than Governor Lalong .
Chief Gushop said at the moment the revenue that comes into the state from the federation account together with the internally generated revenue on the plateau are nothing to write home about and as such one needs to look outside the box to look for investors to develop the state
He said that the number one problem of the state as of today is security and that if one is able to take care of the security challenges of the state, you have almost done everything.
He noted that the state at the moment is highly indebted and that the state government has borrowed and borrowed again and again which accounted for the high indebtedness.
However, he assured that there is need for the incoming government which he hopes to lead to operate Private public partnership ( PPP) to be able to run the government
According to him they need to look for investors to get a lot of development done in the state.
He regretted that the business that is thriving in Nigeria today is criminality and kidnapping by the youths in their quest to get quick money.
He said if given opportunity to govern plateau state, he will concentrate on three areas of development which are health, education and human development, saying” we need to bring in investors in to these areas to see how we can take the state to the next level.
He added that they are thinking of building one of the best hospital in plateau so that there will be no need for people to start rushing abroad for their medical needs .
He also said that the state can also get a lot of revenue from agriculture if they are able to address Agricultural and rural development.
He also added that the state can also get revenue from tourism development as well.
Similarly, he said there is need to establish three fertilizer blending plants in plateau north, plateau central and plateau South.
According to him the farmers in the state are presently planting grains not seeds saying grains does not generate good harvest.
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