former Minister of Sports and current
chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP)
Plateau State, Hon. Damishi Sango on Saturday
accused the APC led administration in the state
of allowing the state to drift apart.
Sango stated this in a chat with journalists in
Jos.
“It is unfortunate that today, Plateau is
drifting apart. Plateau is supposed to be the
shining star in the middle belt but the APC is
bent on rubbishing everything.
“But Plateau people will never allow it, especially
some of us who are still alive from the old
school.”
When asked to assess the present administration
since it came into office last year, the PDP
Chieftain said, “I don’t want to assess it
because there is nothing to assess. Lalong could
not reply my last press conference and the issues
raised because he has no reply to it.
“We raised a lot of issues concerning the
financial recklessness of his administration, just
barely a year in office, but he could not
respond. Lalong has nothing to say to counter
the facts.
“But let me assure you that Plateau is PDP,
Plateau people will decide come 2019”, he
stressed.
On the defection of Senator Joshua Dariye, the
State’s House of Assembly Deputy Speaker, Hon.
Yusuf Gagdi and others; Sango said, “As a party
we have talked about it and we have made our
position known. I don’t want to keep on talking
about an inconsequential issue.
“People will vote you out of trust, then you go
and say you have defected with the mandate of
the people. It is unfortunate.”
He maintained that, “These younger ones just
want to destroy their political future. If you go
about defecting with the peoples’ mandate, who
will trust you tomorrow?
“These ones you see jumping to APC with the
peoples’ mandate are people who came to PDP on
a platter of gold. They never suffered anything
for the party that is why they can afford to do
as they please, but it’s quite unfortunate.”
However in a swift reaction, Governor Simon
Lalong, through his Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity, Hon. Dan Manjang, said, on the
financial allegations, “when you start to throw
stone at every dog that barks, then you will no
get anywhere”.
Manjang told DAILYPOST exclusively that,
“Sango lacks the temerity to accuse anybody of
defecting from one party to another. Sango left
PDP for the AD prior to the 2003 polls and came
back and still left PDP for ANPP at the eve of the
2011 elections. So what is good for the goose is
good for the gander.
“He is the wrong person to complain about
anybody leaving PDP to any other party. It is
common sense that, when the salt loses its
taste, it is thrown away, so PDP is the salt in
this scenario.”
The Governor’s Spokesman maintained that,
“Anybody who understands the times, there will
be no need to stagnate in a place that is full of
impunity; you move to progressive places”.
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