It’s very significant to us as people owing to his very impressive outing as a former governor of Plateau State, an elder statesman and the second Plateau son to have boldly taken the decision to run the presidential race of Nigeria after Damishi Sango who threw his intentions into the ring in 1992 under the defunct SDP. He battled the annulled elections with Chief MKO and his candidature had the blessings of the middle belt and championed by our late political father and patriarch, Chief SD Lar of blessed memory.

Baba, as you enter into the center stage of Nigeria’s battle ground and presidential hatchery, we see it as act of divinity, an act that will salvage Nigerians from the current avoidable severe poverty and anemic economy characterised by brutal abuse of the rule of law, abuse if human rights, administrative destruction of institutions, and apparent intimidation of other independent tiers of Government.

Your messaic entry therefore, is seen in many quotas as an entry long over due but timely to put an end to all oppressive tendencies and excessive application of power to silence any voice of truth.

We in plateau state are indeed appreciative your assertive posture and willingness to register us in the scheme and league of presidential contenders.

Beyond anything else, I for one believe your candidate is heading for success, your candidature has reawakened the audacious Plateau spirit and our intellectual sagacity reactivated beyond homegrown and localised politics of self-expulsion from centre stage politics.

We are therefore, overwhelmingly support your aspirations to be Nigeria’s president come may 2019.

*BabaJang* *2019*

Chun John (CJ) writes from Barkin Ladi.

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It’s delightful and highly symbolic that Dara Baba *Jonah Jang* declares for Nigeria’s number one seat today.