PLATEAU APC CHAIRMAN ACCUSED OF NURSING MINORITY AGENDA
The All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman, Hon Letep Dabang is alleged to be nursing Minority Agenda if given the mantle of leadership to pilot the affairs of Plateau State. A source from one of the minority tribes who frowns at the agenda geared towards polarising Plateau the more, and who claimed to have been in the know of a meeting held in Abuja at the instant of a powerful political guru of minority extraction, alleged that there is a grant plot to support the gubernatorial ambition of Dabang who is said to possess the wherewithal of achieving the minority agenda.
The source who preferred anonymity lamented that the state
just came out from the Jonah David Jang led ethnic administration, and to delve
into another clash between the minorities versus the majority will be
devastating.
All attempts to reach Dabang for comments proved abortive as
he wasn't picking his calls. However one of his supporters who spoke on
personal conviction said, the APC chairman has no such intention. But another
source from his local government, Pankshin said, Dabang has such tendencies
because he mobilises ethnic minorities in his LGA during elections against the
candidacy of the major tribe, that was why he lost out in the 2007 House of
Representatives elections and the Pankshin chairmanship election in 2014. He
further questioned why Letep is totally disliked by the major tribe in
Pankshin.
Pundits opine that all the tribes on the Plateau are related
in one way or the other; apart from the facts that they have inter married and
also shared cultural values politically for a long time.
They also noted that what the state needs at this time is a
leader per excellence who is acceptable to all. A person who has the fear of
God with a clean tract record of honesty and good leadership skills and above
all a detribalized Nigerian, no matter where he comes from but in respect to
the zoning arrangement.
