A former Clerk at the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Abubakar Maikasuwa, has explained why he chose to contest the 2019 governorship seat in Nasarawa State on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress.
His choice of the APC platform, he said, 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’s 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 by 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 for Nasarawa West Zone Coalition for Credible Leadership; had settled for 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, Kuru, Jos in Plateau State, and currently a lecturer in the Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University, retired as Clerk to the National Assembly in August 2016.
