Mr Labaran Maku, a former Minister of Information, has given the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) one week to correct anomalies in the party’s
governorship primary in the state.Maku gave the warning on Saturday while
addressing youths in Wakama Villege of Nasarawa-Eggon Local Government
Area (LGA) of the state.
He said that he had already written a petition to the appeal panel set up
by the national headquarters of the party challenging the outcome of the
primaries.
He mentioned the irregularities that occurred during the primary to
include shortchanging of delegates names in many LGAs, intimidation and
threatening of delegates, among others.
According to him, the fraud committed in the recent PDP governorship
primaries in the Nasarawa state is worse than the one committed at party’s
primaries in the state in 2007.
He said that he would take a decision and seek for peoples mandate
directly if steps were not taken to correct these anomalies in the next
one week.
“Since they think they can shortchange the names of delegates and
intimidate them, we will see how they can shortchange and intimidate the
members of the public,” he said.
He vowed to move on with his ambition to contest the governorship seat of
the state in 2015 and advised all those who thought they could deny the
state of good leaders to have a rethink.
Maku promised that he would restore peace in the state within six months
and reposition the state for total transformation if elected as governor
in 2015.
He, however, urged all his supporters to support the re-election of
President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 for consolidation of development of
the country.
Maku said that Jonathan was one of the best presidents the country had
ever produced using all parameters of developments.
He called on his supporters to remain calm and law abiding, stressing that
he would make decisions known publicly in the next week.