Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Jos South Local
Government Area of Plateau State, have vowed to give President Muhammadu
Buhari and Governor Simon Lalong overwhelming support during the
February 16 Presidential elections.
Hon. Ayuba Pam, spokesman of the stakeholders disclosed this on Monday
during a press conference in Jos and vowed not to defect to PDP with
Hon. Edward Pwajok, member representing Jos South/Jos East Federal
Constituency in the House of Representatives.
Pam said they all defected to the APC with Hon. Pwajok in 2017 following
the maltreatment of the PDP on them and decribed the returned of Pwajok
last week to PDP as a political suicide.
“For the avoidance of doubts, we still respect Hon. Edward Pwajok,SAN.
We have no doubts about his credibility however, let us say with every
sense of responsibility that the latest action he took to return back to
the PDP has put his revered credibility into question.
“It’s painful to walk with somebody and coming to a point of decision,
he abandoned ship. We feel if there was anything concrete to hold unto
it shouldn’t have been the reasons he gave. As his political associates
we feel betrayed and disappointed.
“Let us also make it clear that the Hon member returned alone to PDP. We
have resolved to carry on and vowed to ensure total victory of
President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Simon Lalong and all APC Candidates
in Jos South LGA.
” We want to make it abundantly clear that we have total confidence on
the capabilities and doggedness of the management committee chairman,
Hon. Dr. Gideon Dung Davou to lead the entire local government to
victory in this coming elections.”
Pam refuted claims by Pwajok that he was not comforted when he lost the
APC Senatorial election by the Governor and party Chieftains, saying
Governor Lalong and State APC chairman, Hon. Latep Dabang called him
severally for a meeting but he refused to pick and the Deputy Governor,
Prof. Sonni Gwanle Tyoden had a friutful discussion in his house but
decided to defect to the PDP.
“Immediately after he failed to secure the ticket of the Senatorial
zone, he began to show trends that were peculiar to him and to those who
knew his antics, knew that the time was up as he was such a man that
never took lightly failure, not even of this magnitude.
“He calimed that since when he lost the party’s Senatorial primaries,
neither the governor, deputy governor, the state party chairman and the
candidate who won the primaries had come to him. He said too, he was
being left behind and no body again consulted him about any party
activities and he felt he was no longer needed.
“No body has enjoyed the closeness and goodwill of the Governor than Hon
Edward Gyang Pwajok SAN. Before our decamping, we organized a medical
constituency outreached in Vwang where the governor led the entire state
executive to grace the occasion. This was a clear demonstration of the
love the governor had for him and in the spirit of a by-partisanship
attended.
“The governor had been more forthcoming calling him and at some point
traveling with him to state functions home and abroad, a rear
opportunity that he did not get while he served as the State Attorney
General for more than eight years.
“We learnt on good authority, the Deputy Governor was reported to have
gone to his residence and had useful discussions. This was after several
phone calls we learnt were put across to him that he could not pick nor
return such missed calls. This story is similar with the state party
chairman who was said to have called him severally and was said to have
shown to some people with him that it was the state chairman calling but
that he would not pick.”