Governor Jang names son as commissioner.

The Plateau State Governor, Mr.
Jonah Jang, has named his son,
Yakubu, as the state
Commissioner for Lands and Urban
Planning.
Before this new development,
Yakubu was his father’s Special
Adviser on Special Duties. Yakubu,
according to the Commissioner for
Information. Mr. Mohammed
Abubakar, will take over from Mr.
Yilji Gomwalk, who has been
picked as the running mate to the
Peoples Democratic Party
governorship candidate for the
2015 governorship election, Mr.
Gyang Pwajok.
Abubakar, who briefed newsmen in
Jos on Sunday, said the action
was to allow for continuity in
governance.
Meanwhile, the PDP governorship
candidate has appealed to all
those who contested with him in
the primary to close ranks and
work with him for the growth of the
state.
Pwajok told newsmen in Jos on
Sunday that he would run an all-
inclusive government, adding that
his mission is to continue with the
redemption agenda of the outgoing
governor.
He said, “I see my emergence as
the manifestation of what God
wants to do in Plateau State. Mine
will be an all-inclusive government
as my campaign slogan, Greater
Together, has shown.”
Pwajok said that he intended to fill
the generational gap which the
people, especially the state’s
youths, had been yearning for.
In another development, a youth
group, Political Reawakening
Support Team, has urged Pwajok
to look beyond the primaries and
focus on consolidating his victory
at the forthcoming governorship
election in 2015.
The youths, who addressed
newsmen in Jos on Sunday, said
that the emergence of Pwajok was
a realisation of their clamour that
one of their own should become
the state governor.
Spokespersons for the group,
Messrs Jonathan Amande and Mr.
John Ibrahim, said that the youths
on their part would work to ensure
that the PDP candidate emerged
the winner of the governorship
election next year.