Dalung: Why I want to be governor

Member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and former chairman of Langtang South local government of Plateau State, Barrister Solomon Dalung, has said that his political might and courage will earn him the number one seat on the Plateau come 2015.

Dalung who declared his ambition to run for the governorship of the state, said he will run under an alternative opposition party. He said: “Presently, I don’t have the money but I have the might to challenge and I believe that as the struggle goes on, the people of Plateau will realise that money

as necessary as it were, they need to save the destiny of their children and the state because it is the money we collected in the past that brought us into this situation. Even the civil servants who collected money and were rigging elections in favour of people today have no salaries to collect.”
He said poverty in the state was an artificial creation by government officials to forestall opposition candidates from muscling the economic power to challenge them. According to him: “As Plateau people, our parents have survived self determination and I am going to offer myself and challenge that status quo and I will stand on the grace of our founding fathers who though us to be courageous and resist such situation.”
While describing the performance of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last 16 years as abysmal, Dalung said: “The strength of the PDP is as a result of the poverty that has been artificially created. Everybody is hiding under that canopy and nobody wants to challenge the government. We have all been trained to say hallelujah but Solomon Dalung and the likes of those who love this state are saying No. We will see the strength of the PDP in 2015, let them anoint that candidate they have been calling for prayers for. And then we will know whether the PDP is strong or not.”