News reaching the ViewPointNigeria news desk indicates that a former member of the National Assembly, Senator Cosmas Niagwan, has asserted the ruling People’s Democratic Party may lose Plateau State to the rival All Progressives Congress if Governor Jonah Jang goes ahead with his plan to present a candidate from the state’s northern senatorial zone for the 2015 governorship election in the state.

Niagwan, who represented Plateau South in the National Assembly, spoke to journalists in an interview in Jos on Monday.
He said for peace to continue to reign in the state, the governor should allow the southern senatorial zone to produce the next governor.

News reaching the ViewPointNigeria news desk indicates that a former member of the National Assembly, Senator Cosmas Niagwan, has asserted the ruling People’s Democratic Party may lose Plateau State to the rival All Progressives Congress if Governor Jonah Jang goes ahead with his plan to present a candidate from the state’s northern senatorial zone for the 2015 governorship election in the state.

Niagwan, who represented Plateau South in the National Assembly, spoke to journalists in an interview in Jos on Monday.
He said for peace to continue to reign in the state, the governor should allow the southern senatorial zone to produce the next governor.

He said proponents of power rotation in Plateau State had the principle of justice, fairness and equity at the back of their minds, adding that the administration might be plunging the state into the dark days if succession was not properly handled.
The former federal lawmaker, who is aspiring for the governorship ticket of the state under PDP said, “You know that there is something called protest vote. Jang may just be handing the state on a platter of gold to the APC if he ignores the calls for somebody from the southern senatorial zone to succeed him.

“We may not defect to the APC, but we must make sure that PDP did not get back to the Government House in 2015.”
According to him, the argument that the southern zone has had its turn with the administration of the late Chief Solomon Lar and Ambassador Fidelis Tapgun was not tenable because they were not governors under the current political dispensation.

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Cosmas Niagwan: PDP will lose to APC if Jang imposes candidate on Plateau