Plateau governorship race; Southern Zone PDP leadership disown decision of TAROH elders to anoint a candidate to stand elections among several aspirants.

As Plateau governorship race for 2019 hots up on the Plateau ,Southern zone leadership of the Peoples Democratic party has disclosed that it has not reach an agreement on consensus governorship candidate among the Taroh( Langtang) governorship aspirants to contest the forth coming PDP primaries in the state.

Plateau Southern Zone Vice Chairman of the party Hon Domle V Simon and the state Legal adviser of the party in a joint communique issued to news men in Jos after the meeting of the Taroh Nation stakeholders in respect of consensus governorship aspirant, said consensus is best made after the aspirants have purchased their forms which will enable concerned stakeholders to know who among the aspirants is serious in his aspiration.

According to them,some of the aspirants are unknown to their party’s architectural arrangement as these aspirants have not even visited their electoral wards, local governments, zones and the state levels of they party as required.

They alleged most of the Taroh Elders l in the committee for selection of governorship aspirant were APC affiliates that are sympathizers of Governor Simon Lalong who is the sole governorship candidate of All Progressive Congress in the state.

” That PDP has no area of connection s whatsoever with APC,and so the members of the APC cannot and should not mediate for the PDP in a case like this ” they stressed.

They resolved that those of them who are members of peoples Democratic party in Langtang north and South local government councils have distanced themselves from any decision that would be arrived at by these pro- governor Lalong sympathizers within Taroh Nation.

It would be recalled that the decision by Taroh Elders committee to support one of the several Taroh governorship aspirants for Plateau 2019 governorship aspiration generated disapproval among the supporters of former FCT ministerlLT General Jeremiah Useni, Senator Victor Lar, Jimmy Cheto ,Arch Samuel Jatau and host others wishing to run for governorship race in the state.

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