Jang blasts Kwankwaso Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang has described reports credited to his Kano State counterpart, Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, that he deliberately set him up for defeat at the contest for the chairmanship of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), as rather unfortunate Jang said that it clearly portrayed Kwankwaso as an enemy of the North;, someone with divisive interest without respect for moral values. A statement issued by Plateau State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Pastor Yiljap Abraham, said: “Governor Kwankwaso’s account of events during the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) which led to the adoption of Governor Jang as the candidate of the region for the NGF post has thrown a moral glitz on Nigeria’s political turf’. “His admission that he personally nominated Governor Jonah Jang and asked Governor Suswam of Benue State to support his move only because “it was a game…” clearly showed a mind luxuriating in unethical lyrics. ‘For Kwankwaso to have nominated Jang as consensus candidate and still not “vote” for him, showed an incredible double-speak!’; it noted He asked: ‘Where was the porch of integrity Kwankwaso had constructed as Nigeria’s Defence Minister? Is this “game” part of the crafted Kwankwasiyya curriculum that must be passed by those under the governor’s tutelage? Is crass deception now being introduced as part of a leader’s necessary attitudinal regalia in Nigeria’s politics? Will this form part of our national values as we trudge towards 2015…and the years beyond? ‘As we reflect further on the implication of what Governor Kwankwaso has ‘divulged’, there is still a generation in Kano, Jigawa, Nasarawa, Plateau and beyond that will reminisce at those glorious years of political brotherhood when the late Governor Abubakar Rimi and former Governor Solomon Lar brought Kano and Plateau states respectively to an unbreakable and unshakeable bond of temperate unity (even though they belonged to different political parties and religions!) – a relationship that stood as an icon of national integration and regional mutuality . ‘We refuse to consider that political deception should be celebrated as a national value or that it proves a graduation from elementary politics. Rather, leaders should be made to uphold universally accepted values such as truthfulness, unity, sincerity, courage and integrity. Not to do so is to consign “graduate leaders” to perpetual political elementarism. The commissioner said Governor Jang never sought to be ‘consensus candidate’; nor begged for NGF chairmanship – and so cannot be disgraced. He will come out clean – unstained and untainted. Plateau people will ever remain overcomers of all forms of deceptions and manipulations that are targeted at their temperance, discretion and nationalistic zeal,” it noted.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 19:58:06 +0000
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