2019 – Plateau APC advisory elders Council endorses Lalong, Buhari

By Golok Nanmwa, Jos

Members of the All Progressive Congress ( APC) Elders Advisory Council in Plateau State on Friday  called on the Plateau State governor Simon Lalong and President Muhammadu Buhari to contest the 2019 governorship election and presidential elections respectively .

Chairman of the APC  Elders advisory Council Captain Joseph Din Rtd made this known while addressing journalists in Jos. 

He said “We members of our forum in Plateau State have been following the antecedents of our President Muhammadu Buhari with interests since he came into power in May 2015 ,especially his vision and mission in the key areas of inset, poverty, economic, anti corruption war, power and agriculture which he promised to tackle ,”

,” As far as we are concerned, security is the bedrock of development as one can not undertake any meaningful development without adequate security this government has done well in the area of provision of adequate security,considering that it came into power when insurgents were holding 13 local governments in the North East as their territory and even here in Plateau State, we were devastated but our Armed Forces with the support of government have decimated the insurgents and have reclaimed our territory, this is so because Buhari,s government  has the Political will to defeat the insurgency, no president can say throughout his tenure that there is no skirmishes so he can not exempt himself, we support Buhari because he has shown us beyond reasonable doubt that he has the will power to curtail any insurgency. 

We thank President Muhammadu Buhari for his recent directive to Military and other security operatives to fish out all the perpetrators of wanton killings of innocent Nigerians particularly in the middle belt zone ”

“Also President Muhammadu Buhari stands out as the first president of Nigeria to openly take the fight against corruption as his agenda, he has done that well hence the improvement in the economy of the country which only the opposition may not see and appreciate, this attack on corruption has today attracted commendation all over the world to the effect that the African Union has appointed him the first chairman of fight against corruption in Africa. 

We all know that this country was heading into economic recession already when President Buhari took over in 2015 ,it was largely due to the falling prices of crude oil in the international market and the long term mismanagement of the economy by the previous government, never the less, this government has been able to steer us away from recession within the shortest time possible, when President Buhari was taking over, he did not promise Nigerians that it was going to be rosy all though, he admitted that Nigerians were going to face challenges in the short term and then rejoice for a long time, due to his economic policies, we have started seeing the difference, for instance, Nigerian produced 15 million metric tons of rice in 2017 alone, we are the largest exporter of yams the world over and we are the  largest producer of cassava the world over, this has reduced the country, s food importation  bill, the mining sector is being developed for better productivity, while the transport sector especially the rail sector has gotten a face lift,  all those among others have provided employment for our youth and reduced poverty, based on this ,we the elders advisory Council wish to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to re contest as President come 2019 in spite of the comments made by some eminent citizens calling on him not to re contest and we assure him of our unflinching support 

They also said here in Plateau, our humble Governor Simon Lalong is also making us proud, even by restoring peace to our dear state, he has instituionalized  peace and reconciliation through establishment of peace building agency in the state, Lalong has also continued with uncompleted projects of his predecessors, which has made him carve a niche for himself as this is an effort aimed at uniting the Plateau people as no project can be carried out successfully without peace.

We commend Lalong for the dualization of mararaban Jama,Secretariat   Junction to British America junction which he almost started from the scratch is now at completion stage, the old airport Rayfield to Yelwa club junction which was awarded few months to the expiration of the previous administration has been completed, by this he has demonstrated that government is a condiment. 

We also commend our governor for other road contracts he awarded cutting across the 17 local governments and work is on going and also for revamping the abandoned fertilizer blending plant in Bokkos which is now in Production ,and for revamping the Highland bottling company in BarkinLadi thereby creating employment 

The elders also laud Lalong for his plans to rebuilding the burn Jos Main market to boost economic activities in the state 

Our Correspondent gathered that those present at the Press conference includes an APC chieftain  Captain Joseph  Din, Ambassador  Ignatius Longjang for Deputy governor of Plateau State, Dasuki Nakande former Minister of State for information, Professor Longmak Wapmuk, former DG ITF, Dr Nandul Durfa former CMD Gwagalada specialist hospital, Arch Pam Dung Gyang, Jethro Akun former deputy governor of Plateau State, and several others 

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2019 – Plateau APC advisory elders Council endorses Lalong, Buhari