Attai Audu Jos.
Former Minister of State for Information and stalwart of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki Nakande has cautioned the leadership of the party to take into cognisance of the country’s perculiarity in the process of chosing a running mate for the presidential flagbearer of the All Progresive Congress Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Nakande in an interview with newsmen in Jos on Wednesday pointed out that anybody who will occupy the office of the vice president of this country should be a person with good antecidents, adding that the country need someone who has a very strong moral character who has the wherewithal and has shown example to lead irrespective of his religion and where he comes from.
According to him, one of the business of any political party is to win election and to achieve that everybody must be carried along.
He said there are so many things that Government can do to be able to address issues concerning marginalization and other forms of injustice in the polity.
He argued that political marginalization should also be addressed so that everybody will feel a sense of belonging stressing that “If a Muslim-Muslim ticket will give the APC the required number of votes to win the presidential election, so be it.” He said
The APC stalwart further said he is very optimistic that Tinibu Will win the presidential election come 2023 most especially as the presidential standard bearer Bola Ahmed Tinubu has gone round to see all those who contested the primaries with him and appealed to those that contested with Tinibu to see the need to work together for the interest of the party and the country in general.
Dasuki also stressed that his party APC under the leadership of president Mohammadu Buhari has tried his best in terms of infrastructural developement noting the only gap is the issue of insecurity which has become endemic that every administration has to cope with.
Speaking on his recent write up where he gave reason why Tinubu should not pick Gov Lalong as running mate, Nakande said just like in his two write up to Governor Lalong, he was talking more abaut issues.
“The fact that we have never had any project on the Plateau that we can say as APC government under governor Lalong that we have started from the beginning to the end that have been commissioned.”
He argued that they have seen the example of what governors like Babagana Zulum of Borno; Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna; Dave Umahi of Ebonyi have done for their respective states.
“If you go round Plateau state nothing have changed in the last few years.”
According to Nakande , all the projects that Governor Lalong managed to commissioned were unfortunately Jonah Jang’s projects adding that he has completed those projects to about 85 percent saying Lalong’s effort is to continue to push and commissioned them.
” The legacy projects has failed completely. Our roads all over the state are terribly bad. The five kilometers roads that he has started has failed woefully, if we are not careful , APC may loose the Governorship election in Plateau state come 2023.”
But in a swift reaction , the state Commissioner of information and Communication Hon. Dan Manjang told Newsmen in Jos that the allegations were not true.
Danmajang queried why is it now that the former Minister has woken up to see the short coming s of Lalong’s administration.
He pointed out that it was the same Nakande that availed them the opportunity of the use of his Unity FM Radio station to sing the song of Lalong’s administration untill recently for whatever reason he has chosen to jettisoned the vice president bid of governor Lalong.
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