Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Plateau state under the umbrella of the Plateau for Atiku Group have disowned the statement credited to former governor Jonah David Jang asking the National Chairman of the party, Dr Iyiorchia Ayu to resign.
According to them,neither the party nor the stakeholders authorised any such statement and that what the former governor said was his personal opinion.
In a statement signed by the interim secretary of the group, Prof Shedrack Best, the group frowned at the former Governor’s penchant for making statements that are not in tune with the Stakeholders. Jang has been a member of Governor Nyesome Wike’s group which has been having a running battle with the national Chairman of the party since Wike lost the Presidential primaries to former vice president Atiku Abubakar.
“Our former governor Sen Dr Jonah David Jang has made remarks contrary to the position of the Stakeholders and its time we make clarifications. We dissociate ourselves from the position of our former governor. He did not speak for us neither did he for the party in the state.
We were taken aback by such remarks and as loyal party men and women, we encourage peaceful resolution of the impaise and not actions that will fuel it out of proportion.
We stand by the national Chairman and our Presidential candidate . While we pray for amicable resolution of the crisis for the party to take its bearing and prepare for victory, we are not happy that those who are in a position to offer constructive counsel and solutions are adding to the crisis”.
The group called on the public to discountenance the statement of the former Governor saying,” Sen Jang is not the face of the party in the state. He is not our spokesman and he cannot decide for us.”
