News reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that the crisis rocking the Plateau State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has escalated another notch, with key party elder accusing the State leadership of trying to manipulate the delegate list for the soon to be undertaken primaries.

It was learnt that several Plateau opinion leaders have been meeting in close quarters in Jos to consider guidelines and processes of the primaries and have raised alarm over what it calls a plan to doctor and manipulate the entire list of delegates -these elders have resorted to taking action and have since gone to Abuja to protest against what they construe as the hijacking of election materials by Government agents.

News reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that the crisis rocking the Plateau State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has escalated another notch, with key party elder accusing the State leadership of trying to manipulate the delegate list for the soon to be undertaken primaries.

It was learnt that several Plateau opinion leaders have been meeting in close quarters in Jos to consider guidelines and processes of the primaries and have raised alarm over what it calls a plan to doctor and manipulate the entire list of delegates -these elders have resorted to taking action and have since gone to Abuja to protest against what they construe as the hijacking of election materials by Government agents.

Among the elders, who have disagreed with the outcome of the congress, are a former chairman, Prof. Dakum Shown from Pankshin; Danjuma Maina from Mangu; Group Capt. Danyil Kanke(retd.), all from from Central zone; Ambassador B. C. Selchun, Langtang North; Ahmed Abdullahi, Wase, John Dafa’an from Qua’an Pan, all from the Southern zone and elder Bulus Dareng from northern zone. Those individuals have also been joined by former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, and former Governor Joshua Dariye. They were said to have gone to Abuja to ask the National Assembly to intervene as it did in Akwa Ibom and Adamawa states.
It was learnt that the aggrieved elders opposed the emergence of any governorship candidate from the Northern zone, insisting on the zoning arrangement, where the southern zone had been penciled to produce the next governor.

One of the elders, who spoke to journalist on Wednesday, Mr. Toma Davou, said it was wrong for the governor to contemplate presenting another candidate from the Northern zone when he, when the incumbent (who is from the Northern zone), is about to complete his term.

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Plateau PDP Crisis Escalate as Southern and Central Zone Politicians Close Ranks