Jang, still PDP’s flag bearer in Plateau---Organisation
FROM: CHRISTIANA GOKYO JOS

The campaign organization of Plateau state PDP candidate, Air commodor Jonah David Jang has said that, Jang won the primaries of 13th December, 2006 with a simple majority of the total votes cast.
The director of administration Jang Campaign Organization, Hansi Suleiman was reacting to allegations against Jang’s, during a press conference organized last week by some coalition students, claiming that the PDP primaries did not produce a clear winner.
He said, both Yakubu who led the press and his paymasters were either ignorant of the true state of affairs in the PDP or were deliberately being mischievous.
According to him,the truth of the matter is that, before the 13th December, 2006 primaries, the national secretariat of the party decided that any aspirant that scored a simple majority of votes cast would be declared winner. It was subject to the decision that the national secretariat of the PDP announced Jang as the winner.
He further challenged anyone, who subscribed this warped line of thinking to come out and show the world the indices that confirmed this.
According to him , they would not allow anybody to steal their mandate again, as it was done in 1999 and 2003.
Also speaking on the running mate of Jang ,Mrs. Pauline Tallen said Jang did not consult any Stakeholder over the choice, saying it was not true.
He said Jang was given a directive by INEC’s national secretariat to present his running- mate within twenty four hours, due to the time constraint, he consulted governor Michael Botmang, deputy senate president Ibrahim Mantu and the former chairman of PDP, who is now the deputy governor, Chief Jethro Akun, among others over the decision of Mrs. Tallen ticket, which was approved by all.
He said, the choice of Mrs. Tallen has brought unprecedented goodwill and support to the PDP, not only on the plateau state, but the country as a whole, especially the womenfolk, who constitute the bulk of the voting population.
According to him,on Thursday. 11th Jan. 2007, Senator Mantu hatched a plot to undermine Jang’s candidature by summoning five PDP Exco members from each of the 17 LGAs of the state to his residence in Abuja, secretretariat to reject Jang’s candidature, and to call for a dropping of both Jang and mrs Tallen to be replaced by neutral candidate, preferably Botmang or Jimmy Cheto.
According to him he was suprised that, the exco members, who declared that, they were 100 percent in support of Jang/Tallen ticket ,as this was not enough for him, he invited PDP national and state assembly candidates from plateau for the same kind of meeting, which also hit the rocks.
Mr. Suleiman, who also stated that, all the PDP gubernatorial and national aspirants duly sworn- in to an affidavit declaring that, they would strictly abide by whatever decisions the national body of the party would take regarding the outcome of the primaries, but “ we are surprised,as to why those that were defeated are now singing a new song and disregarding the oath they took”.
According to him, Jang has continuously been appealing to the other aspirants to join hands with him to ensure the electoral victory of PDP at both the state and national levels.