Plateau 2019: Langtang APC youths pledge support for Lalong

By Golok Nanmwa ,Jos

As the 2019 Governorship election draws closer ,the All Progressive Congress APC Youths in Langtang local government of Plateau state on Monday pledged their support for Governor Simon Lalong .

The group in a statement signed by Comrade Abel Nimchak publicity Secretary of the group also reads that
“Our attention has been drawn to a press statement credited to the PDP Southern Zone in which it was claimed that members of a group who refer to themselves as “Tarok Elders Forum”, who had earlier released a statement of their own endorsing a candidate as the consensus gubernatorial aspirant of the Taroh nation were supporters of Governor of Plateau State, Hon. Barr. Simon Bako Lalong.

We wish to state that the statement of the PDP Southern Zone besides being baseless, reckless and malicious, it was also disrespectful of the Governor who has earned the sobriquet of “Ambassador of Peace” and would not stoop so low to use a self styled ethnic platform such as the Tarok Elders Forum to cause disaffection among the Tarok people and the opposition PDP in Plateau State.

To suggest that those elders, in a negligible minority as far as the composition of elders in the Tarok nation is concerned, are members of the governing APC who were on a covert mission to destabilize the PDP in Plateau state is nothing more than a figment of the imagination of the PDP Southern zone. To the best of our knowledge, the Tarok elders group has nothing to do with the APC, except that in the very least, they might have been compelled to flow along the unstoppable tide of change which swept the PDP out of power in 2015 , a fate that looks set to befall the PDP yet again in a more lethal manner come 2019.
It is obvious that the sharp criticisms, expressions of resentment, the indifferent body language of the electorate and the deep-seated disillusionment that have since greeted the purported endorsement of the aspirant by his committee of friends of Taroh extraction have not augured well for the PDP’s attempt to close ranks in the face of a daily tilting of the scales in favour of the APC; hence, the sudden change of tone that the purported endorsement of the candidate was the handiwork of Governor Alert and the rescue team leader.
There is no doubting the fact that by choosing a seeming ethnic platform for its latest round of theatrics, the PDP has indeed elevated the art of mischief and blackmail to an all time high; and such approach having boomeranged woefully in the face of the PDP, the party must accept that her sins of yesteryears are still hunting her.
May we, however, conclude by advising the zonal leadership of the PDP in Southern Plateau to leave Governor Lalong out of her current travails arising out of the purported endorsement of the aspirant by some members of his peer group

The PDP must note that the gubernatorial race on the Plateau has never been and cannot be determined by a single ethnic nationality, let alone a fraction of friends of any extraction.

“The PDP is hereby further enjoined to always exercise restraint and demonstrate discernment in the employ of her political tactics in the larger “interest of Plateau State.

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Plateau 2019: Langtang APC youths pledge support for Lalong