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Former Clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Abubakar Maikasuwa,
has chosen to contest the 2019 governorship seat in Nasarawa state on the
platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
His choice of the APC platform followed a resolution by stakeholders from
the three senatorial zones of the state.
The stakeholders, under the aegis of the Coalition for Good Governance and
Civil Participation from the southern zone, Nasarawa Youth Mobilisation
for Good Governance from the northern zone and Nasarawa West Zone
Coalition for Credible Leadership, had last month called on him to enter
the governorship race to offer service to the people.
Maikasuwa had accepted the call and had, in addition, tasked the
stakeholders to choose a political party platform on which to answer the
call.
The stakeholders, in three separate letters signed Ubandoma Abdullahi and
Haruna Muhammed for Coalition for Good Governance and Civil Participation;
Donald Gwado Moshi and Secretary, Muktar Ahmed Keffi for Nasarawa Youth
Mobilisation for Good Governance; and Mustapha Mahmood Usman Nasarawa West
Zone Coalition for Credible Leadership, had resolved on the APC platform.
The consensus by the stakeholders in their letters to Maikasuwa dated
March 13, 2018 is that the APC platform in Nasarawa state is the most
popular and acceptable to the people of the state.
In his reply, also dated March 13, 2018, Maikasuwa said he had accepted
their choice of the APC platform, declaring that accordingly, it is now
my singular honour and cherished privilege to present myself as a 2019
governorship candidate in Nasarawa state on the platform of the most
popular, most reliable and most accommodating political party, the APC.
Maikasuwa, an alumnus of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic
Studies (NIPPS) and currently a lecturer in the Department of Public
Administration, Nasarawa State University, retired as Clerk to the
National Assembly in August 2016.
The stakeholders decide to tap him for the position in order to ensure,
according to them, continuation and consolidation of the development
projects and programmes of the outgoing Tanko Al-Makura administration.
Al-Makura had also benefitted from the statewide support of the
stakeholders in 2011 when, against the run of play as candidate of the
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), he defeated the incumbent, Governor
Aliyu Akwei Doma of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who died last
month.
There are indications that some influential political leaders in
government across the state are working quietly to actualize Maikasuwas
governorship in 2019 because he is believed to have demonstrated capacity
for public administration.
He is also said to be enjoying enthusiastic support from the state civil
service against the backdrop of the history of his effective
administration and the team leadership model that he brought to bear on
administration and workers welfare as the Head of Service in the
bureaucracy of the Federal Legislature.