{"id":61325,"date":"2018-03-26T01:12:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T00:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=61325"},"modified":"2018-03-26T01:12:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T00:12:05","slug":"maikasuwa-jostles-for-nasarawa-governorship-seat-on-the-apc-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/maikasuwa-jostles-for-nasarawa-governorship-seat-on-the-apc-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Maikasuwa jostles for Nasarawa governorship seat on the APC platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Former Clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Abubakar Maikasuwa,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">has chosen to contest the 2019 governorship seat in Nasarawa state on the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">His choice of the APC platform followed a resolution by stakeholders from<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the three senatorial zones of the state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The stakeholders, under the aegis of the Coalition for Good Governance and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Civil Participation from the southern zone, Nasarawa Youth Mobilisation<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">for Good Governance from the northern zone and Nasarawa West Zone<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Coalition for Credible Leadership, had last month called on him to enter<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the governorship race to offer service to the people.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Maikasuwa had accepted the call and had, in addition, tasked the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">stakeholders to choose a political party platform on which to answer the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">call.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The stakeholders, in three separate letters signed Ubandoma Abdullahi and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Haruna Muhammed for Coalition for Good Governance and Civil Participation;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Donald Gwado Moshi and Secretary, Muktar Ahmed Keffi for Nasarawa Youth<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Mobilisation for Good Governance; and Mustapha Mahmood Usman Nasarawa West<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Zone Coalition for Credible Leadership, had resolved on the APC platform.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The consensus by the stakeholders in their letters to Maikasuwa dated<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">March 13, 2018 is that the APC platform in Nasarawa state is the most<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">popular and acceptable to the people of the state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In his reply, also dated March 13, 2018, Maikasuwa said he had accepted<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">their choice of the APC platform, declaring that accordingly, it is now<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">my singular honour and cherished privilege to present myself as a 2019<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">governorship candidate in Nasarawa state on the platform of the most<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">popular, most reliable and most accommodating political party, the APC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Maikasuwa, an alumnus of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Studies (NIPPS) and currently a lecturer in the Department of Public<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Administration, Nasarawa State University, retired as Clerk to the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">National Assembly in August 2016.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The stakeholders decide to tap him for the position in order to ensure,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">according to them, continuation and consolidation of the development<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">projects and programmes of the outgoing Tanko Al-Makura administration.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Al-Makura had also benefitted from the statewide support of the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">stakeholders in 2011 when, against the run of play as candidate of the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), he defeated the incumbent, Governor<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Aliyu Akwei Doma of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who died last<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">month.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">There are indications that some influential political leaders in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">government across the state are working quietly to actualize Maikasuwas<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">governorship in 2019 because he is believed to have demonstrated capacity<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">for public administration.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">He is also said to be enjoying enthusiastic support from the state civil<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">service against the backdrop of the history of his effective<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">administration and the team leadership model that he brought to bear on<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">administration and workers welfare as the Head of Service in 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