I Am Not In Any Secret Alliance With Lalong, APC, Never Collected Any Money From The APC-Aminu Zang

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Yakubu Busari

A former Commissioner in Plateau Sate Hon. Aminu Zang has x-rayed some of the People Democratic Party, (PDP) wrangling causing confusion and disaffection within the party.

 

He said I don’t play politics as a hobby, but I enjoy politics where people entrusted you with the position of authority to govern them.

 

He described those linking him of having secret Political romance with All Progressive Congress (APC) are a few trying to portray him in a bad light, they are my first class Political detractors who are envious of my achievement which is not solely from politics contrary to the myopic thinking of my perceive Political detractors.

 

 

Aminu Zang said those of them who make Politics as their means of livelihood thought I Aminu Zang is like them, it may shock them that my being in Politics is to serve my people and represent their voice not using politics as a meal ticket like most of them thinking everybody is like them.

 

 

Hon.Aminu Zang and one-time chairman Jos North LG of Plateau State stated this in an interview with journalists in Jos the Plateau capital in response to the rumour from some quarters that he Aminu Zang one of the stakeholders of the People Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State is having secrete dealings with the opposition Party in the state (APC) with the bid of causing disaffection within the party.

 

 

The former House of Representatives Representing Jos North / Bassa Constituency at the federal House of Representatives said all the issues raised by those he described as his political detractors are false but an attempt to smear my hard-earned political reputation.

 

 

You will recall that I was the sole candidate organized by my party PDP in the 2015 election. In fact, I was the only consensus candidate by the PDP caucus.

 

Consensus didn’t know tribe, religion, race, and the consensus was adopted by the 14 Wards in Jos North local government namely, Abana Shehu, Sarki Arab, Ali Kazaure, Tafawa Balewa, Vandapuye, Abrahim Kashim, Garuba Daho, and Jenta Apata.

 

Other wards that adopted me as their consensus candidate were Jenta Adamu, Naraguta A&B, and Jos Jarawa.

 

 

The party at the local government level in all the wards endorsed my candidature for the local government council election.

 

 

He further said we didn’t just allow outright endorsement; we followed party guidelines through affirmations.

 

 

The event took place at the Kent hotel along Tudu Wada Road opposite officers mess in Jos North LG where the affirmation was done and the election could not hold in those four local government councils, Jos North, South, Barki Ladi, and Riyom the reasons were adduced by PLASIEC which is responsible for the Conduct and supervision of the election in the state were because of insecurity and the covid-19  reasons.

 

He further stressed that the party in the state made some frantic efforts to ensure that PLASIEC conducts elections in the affected LG but that could not happen.

 

 

Aminu, however, lamented that after three years, PLASIEC is yet not able to conduct elections in those affected local governments in the state as they always attributed their actions to the insecurity in those four local governments.

 

 

We applied pressure to make the government change its mind, but the only thing we couldn’t do is to go to court, because if we do, we will be playing Into their hand, since it appeared they were not ready to conduct the election, it would be prejudicial to conduct elections when the matter is pending in court.

 

 

Based on the above-mentioned reasons, so we technically avoid the option of going to court, thinking that the pressure we are putting on them through public demand like talking to the federal government, approaching the court reminding them of such Court judgments that have been given like that of Kwara State were the court compelled the INEC to conduct the local government elections in the state, this is with the view of cajoling governor.

 

 

He lamented that today, Aminu Zang is saying he is not running again, some group of people said it should have been handed over to them, they should be out of their mind, and politics is not like that

 

It was all about consensus, at a point I said I wasn’t running for the position again that I am no longer interested in contesting three years after, I called the Party to intimate them why I didn’t want to contest again the reasons why I said I won’t contest again.

 

 

He said it’s the characteristics and character of PDP, usually, we don’t go to Congresses open-ended we sit down as a family and agreed usually one set of forms where bought and by the time we settled on the candidate, those who will aspire and those who will eventually emerge as the officials, they have been giving one forms each.

 

 

Aminu who put the cost of the forms at N44 million said the set of officials put the money together, bought the forms which they claimed they obtained a loan from United Bank of Africa (UBA) which they said it was the chairman of Langtang North that bought the forms on behalf of the Party then.

 

After the resolution of how the money for the forms is going to be paid back, it was typical of us that the money is going to be paid to (UBA) while individual aspirants will then go there to collect the form.

 

Useni group bought into the idea because there was that clear-cut dichotomy between the Useni group and the David Jang group as Senator Jang Group took absolute charge of the forms that were funded by the elected officials at the detriment of those in the Useni group.

 

 

He condemned the action of some group of people who assumed the position of Demigod, sat down collected those forms, and said until you are in their good book, you will not be part of benefiting from the vendor forms.

 

Characteristically in Jos North, Hon. Aminu said we sat down, saw a  new set of people from where God knows, emerged from nowhere, and though they can exclude everybody else only them will now decide who be a beneficiary of those forms.

 

In Jos North, for instance, we have Nine Communities based officials they are, Anaguta Berom, Afizere, Igbos, and the Yorubas Communities.  These Communities will then in turn called the people and then agreed on the distribution pattern of these forms.

 

It is very imperative to point out here that who gets what in the distribution pattern we are determined by the Communities themselves.

 

 

Some tribes which I don’t want to mention in this interview, in the fury of their power given to them, I don’t know by whom, which I don’t believe it is God.

 

In the previous sharing formula, Anaguta uses to have 3 positions, Afizere 3 and this time reverse is the case as Berom alone has 5 positions Anaguta and Afizere 1 each and also decide who will be the person.

 

Aminu said some of us said it is an injustice that we will not allow it to stay; we decided that something was wrong that is why we went to approach the court to remedy these anomalies.

 

On my own I went to Abuja, to buy forms before the closing date for the entire Jos North which cost me about 2.8 million Naira.

 

 

I then called the Nine Communities, asked them the hitherto distribution pattern, let maintain the status quo because we are now in opposition Party and we cannot afford internal issues that are capable of causing disharmony between members of the family.

 

 

So we distributed the forms, as I speak with you now, some of the Communities were able to pay back, in the end, what I was able to garner is Five Hundred Thousand Naira out of 2.8 million Naira.

 

 

When the election was finally fixed behind Godon Hotel the formal Jossy Royal Hotel these people refused to come, instead formed a parallel venue in Jos South LG at Utokon Road called Ray View.

 

 

We called the PLASIEC officials to come, when they finally came, they denied fixing the venue at Ray View.

 

Our boys rushed to the venue at Jos South; brought the boys who were already busy filling forms arrested them and brought them behind Godon Hotel.

 

All the PLASIEC officials were there and accreditation started only for soldiers to invade the venue of the election around 5 pm when accreditation was almost over with the excuse that we cannot continue with the election with the flimsy excuses because there is covid-19 pandemic and even arrested some of our members like Yakubu Choji and some other persons who were taken to STF.

 

As if that was not enough, they went ahead to doctor some list they sent to Abuja which they said was the purported Congresses that were held in Jos.

 

 

One the allegation that me, I romance with the APC Government in the state, and the rumour that me Aminu Zang is planning to decamp to APC, I think that is the infringement of the imagination of the brain of those who want to spoil my name and my Political ambition which has taken me many years to build through Political hard work and transparency of the numerous Political offices I had occupied over the years.

 

 

It may interest you to know that we have an association which cut across all Political parties.

 

Its non-Political association made up of APC, PDP and other Political members and it is call Association of commissioners and Senior Assistance (COMSA).

 

 

The major objective of the association is to socialize and assist one another in the group, for example during birthday celebration, child birth, marriage and death or bereavement.

 

In that association, members are made to contribute during weeding, bereavement which ranges from five thousand to fifty thousand depends on the occasion.

 

 

Aminu zang said those behind the rumour are my Political detractors who didn’t have anything reasonable to do .

 

 

They also alleged of me romancing with His Excellency Bako Lalong collecting money from him buying fleet of exotics cars that is not true.

 

It is imperative for them to know that I am business man aside of  Politics ,I am into Politics as a voice to my Communities who are voiceless .

 

I am not like those of them whose main occupation is politics nothing else,

 

Watch out for the part (2) of Aminu Zang interview.

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