“I Stand Against Zoning Of Toto LG Chairmanship Slot”. – APC Chieftain, Chief Maikaya.
By Sadiq Abubakar, Abuja.
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Toto Local Government Council of Nasarawa state, His Excellency, Alhaji Muhammed Musa Maikaya and (Ciroman Toto), has said that he was not in support of the idea of the proposed zoning of the chairmanship seat in the area.
Global Times Nigeria, had learnt that APC stakeholders of the local government, under the leadership of Speaker of the State House Assembly, Hon Ibrahim Abdullahi Balarabe, were said to have unanimously resolved to zone the chairmanship slot to Gadabuke District for ease of administration.
Maikaya, who was also the governorship aspirant in 2019 governorship election in the state, made the observation during an exclusive interview with our reporter at his private residence in Toto over the weekend.
He observed that adopting zoning of the chairmanship position will not allowed for development and integration, saying since the stakeholders are preaching unity, there was no need to device ways of embarking or coming up with decision that may cause division among people across tribal, ethnic, religious and political lines.
“When we are preaching unity, we need to be telling people to identify themselves by their tribes and where they come from. I will rather prefer for all of us to see ourselves as brothers and sisters, as if you are interested in it, come out and contest as it has always been. And if you win, your supporters and every other person will appreciate and relate with you, while if you lose, they will sympathized with you,” he said.
He added ” But for us to clearly say one section is qualified and disqualified another section, which I believe is not part of APC agenda if we truly believe in APC. So a true believer of APC will not say that,'”.
He said if it was an informal arrangement to make zoning suitable, saying he believed it should not be the local government that should encourage tribal division.
He said it will be rather good if the chairmanship slot was left opened across all the local government in order to enable all parts of the political wards to contest, even though he said he was yet to believe if the chairmanship slot was zoned to Gadabuke District of the local government.
Maikaya, however, said though, he was not aware of adoption of the zoning of chairmanship position to Gadabuke, saying such decision cannot be taken without involving him as among the APC stakeholder in the area.
