₦airaland Forum

The Need for Unity:

The Plateau State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is at a pivotal moment, and recent developments involving former lawmaker Dachung Musa Bagos have raised legitimate concerns among party members and stakeholders. While healthy debate and differing strategies are part of any political organization, actions that risk fracturing the party's cohesion must be carefully examined—and addressed with urgency.

Credible sources within the PDP indicate that Bagos's recent manoeuvres have sown discord, with many questioning whether his efforts align with the party's broader interests. Some perceive his actions as a direct challenge to the political influence of former Governor Jonah Jang, a key figure in Plateau politics. Others suggest that Bagos may be part of a calculated effort by certain elements within Governor Mutfwang's inner circle to reshape the party's power dynamics—particularly by diminishing Jang's stronghold in the northern zone, where his support has historically been decisive.

The last local government elections exposed the risks of such divisive tactics. In Jos South, PDP stakeholders had already agreed on a consensus candidate for the chairmanship position. Yet, Bagos reportedly disregarded this collective decision, instead backing his aide in the primaries. Despite significant resources deployed in support of his preferred candidate, the party's consensus choice prevailed—a clear indication that unilateral actions cannot override the majority's will.

This episode raises serious questions: If party leaders cannot trust one another to honour agreements, how can they present a united front to voters? And if such behaviour goes unchecked, will it encourage others to pursue personal ambitions at the expense of party discipline?

Governor Caleb Mutfwang must remain vigilant. While political evolution is natural, any attempt to dismantle existing structures without a clear, unifying alternative could backfire. Reports suggest that Bagos and his backers are pushing the Governor to distance himself from Jang's political network ahead of 2027. However, history has shown that fragmentation weakens, rather than strengthens, a party's electoral prospects.

Party members have voiced their frustrations, seeing Bagos's actions as self-serving rather than party-building. As one executive member noted, "This isn't about progress—it's a power play that risks dividing us when we need unity most."

The PDP's strength lies in its collective purpose. If internal divisions are allowed to fester, the party risks losing its competitive edge in Plateau politics. Stakeholders are right to demand accountability and a reaffirmation of shared goals.

Governor Mutfwang has an opportunity to demonstrate decisive leadership by ensuring that all party members work toward cohesion, not conflict. The time to act is now—before personal ambitions erode the trust and discipline that keeps the PDP strong.

As party chieftain Izang Peter rightly stated, "The Plateau PDP must take decisive steps to maintain its unity and stability." The party's future and success in upcoming elections depend on it.

cule7:
Plateau names be like Chinese.
Anyways, whoever read the entire piece should help me summarize.

Kkingship:
Could this be the reason there are so many killings in Jos

dalongjnr:
Just some gimmick from the fiction of imagination of the writer.
There's no cracks anywhere for the lizard to enter.

Cutezt:
It will be very difficult to wrestle Plateau State out of the hands of Jang. He is a Berom man, his people love him, they are the Majority indigenous tribe, he performed very well in terms of infrastructure in the state during his tenure, to date, no other governor comes close. His alliance with Mutfwang was/is a blessing to the Plateau people, as Mutfwang is also showing 'workings' in the state. Bagos, despite being a Berom man too, is too new to Plateau top politics, and does not have the crowd Jang commands.

For the sake of Plateau, i will urge the both parties to bury any grief they have between them, cos plateau people witnessed firsthand what a useless and corrupt administration looks like during the Lalong/APC era in the state and i am 100% sure no one wants to go back there with what they are getting with Mutwang right now.

They should never allow APC creep in again.

Cutezt:
It will be very difficult to wrestle Plateau State out of the hands of Jang. He is a Berom man, his people love him, they are the Majority indigenous tribe, he performed very well in terms of infrastructure in the state during his tenure, to date, no other governor comes close. His alliance with Mutfwang was/is a blessing to the Plateau people, as Mutfwang is also showing 'workings' in the state. Bagos, despite being a Berom man too, is too new to Plateau top politics, and does not have the crowd Jang commands.

For the sake of Plateau, i will urge the both parties to bury any grief they have between them, cos plateau people witnessed firsthand what a useless and corrupt administration looks like during the Lalong/APC era in the state and i am 100% sure no one wants to go back there with what they are getting with Mutwang right now.

They should never allow APC creep in again.

suleimanshehu:
Berom majority indeed. Please, don't deceived those that don't know Plateau State. Out of 17 LGAs in the state, berom are partly establish in only 3 LGA. So, readers those 3/17 sounds Like Majority? No tribe in Plateau State is in anyway majority.

Cutezt:
Berom is comfortably the biggest tribe in Plateau state; they occupy 4 LGAs, not 3, but even if they occupy 3, have you considered that there are about 54 different indigenous tribes in Plateau state? If one tribe basically owns 3 LGA, that leaves the 53 other tribes to contend with 14 LGA, so how can you say they are not the majority? Remember, Hausa/Fulani has no place in Plateau state, so when they are talking about the state, dem no even be part of the ingredients at all.

suleimanshehu:
Apart from Jos south, Barkin Ladi, Ryom LGA where else are berom established? Jos North LGA majorly belongs to Hausas, Anaguta and Afizere. Jos East is Afizere or Jarawa. In Bassa LGA you have Miangos and host of other tribes. So, where else do you have beroms? Angas tribe are well establish in Pankshin and Kanke LGA but are not making mouth. Yargan or Tarok are majorly found in Langtan North & South, and Kadarko district of Wase LGA but they are not claiming superiority. So out of 54 tribes Beroms are partly establish in 3 LGAs out of 17 LGAs i.e. 17% while the remaining LGAs has about 53 tribes which is about 83%. The two LGAs with most population are Mangu 300,000+ and Jos North 400,000+ are not inhabited by Beroms. So, Dear Readers those Berom 17% be consider Majority over 83%? This guy claim Hausa has no place in Jos, yet they win house of Reps/Assembly seat. The place called Jos City Center/Terminus/ Major settlement in Jos North is inhabited by tribes other than Berom. Berom majority, are you Joking!!!

Cutezt:
Lmao, from your name, I already deduced where you are going. You clearly have the ideology of stealing people's ancestral homes. By the way, you may as well include Igbos as part of the Indigenous people in Jos, since you have the audacity to include your land-grabbing brothers.

FYI, the Beroms are fully inhabited in Jos north, Jos gan gan, Jishe is a Hausa word, I suppose right? Kabong nko? Tudun wada? Dong nko?

I won't actually blame you cos you only type what you were told and trying to distort history.

The Angwan rogo, that your kind packed themselves in is originally Anaguta land, that was why, during the Jang administration, when he wanted to chase you encroachers, you all started screaming and calling for help from all angles. The Bauchi road, Angwan Rimi, Nasarawa Gwom, etc, that you think you have population is just a tiny part of Jos, you can not claim ownership of it. There are just as many igbos in Jos as Hausa's, yet you will never hear them say they are From Jos, yet, you people will say you are from Jos, make sallah reach now, Kano, Katsina, Bauchi, Sokoto, parks will be filled to the brim with all of you running to your original home to spend time with your family.

The issue of reps members is more complex, the other tribes in Jos north simply do not come out to vote when it comes to reps cos they feel it is not important to them, the Hausas hold on to it like their lives depend on it, because truly, it does. That's the only seat they can get close to in Plateau state, and it's all because of Lalong's alliance with the devil. You can never win any chairmanship without his betrayal.

In conclusion, if you can include Hausas in Jos North's conversation, you may as well include Igbos, cos they also have a very significant number in Jos north.

suleimanshehu:
My point is simple, no tribe has majority in Plateau State. Even primary school students knows that 17% can not be greater than 83%. Mr Majority can Berom majority on their own win them Governorship in the Plateau, the answer is NO. Cancel that majority mentality. No tribe has the number to claim that on the Plateau.

cule7:
Plateau names be like Chinese.
Anyways, whoever read the entire piece should help me summarize.

Cutezt:
I have never claimed the Beroms alone outnumber all others put together, did i? I simply said population-wise, Beroms are clearly greater.

No single tribe can win the governorship by itself, but if anyone can come close, it's the Berom, and it was clear during GNS Pwajok.

Despite how the other tribes vented their anger and displeasure with Jang for trying to bring in another Berom man, even with the gang up, Lalong won with just about 40k votes. Basically, every tribe on the Plateau was against GNS; you dare not be caught with GNS posters around Rukuba road and the likes, yet, the margin was not too great, which tells you that the Berom is significant. However, it was very humbling to the Beroms cos it made them know that they can not run the state alone and need the alliance of others, because together, we can make a difference.


BTW, I liked how you did not deny the land grabbing ideology and the significant presence of Beroms in Jos North, must be humbling to know that there are Plateau indigines out there who hold on tightly to their history and will defend it against any distortion.

suleimanshehu:
As usual the religious card, you all disliked Lalong because he associate with APC, because most people Like you assumed PDP as Christian party.

APC/Prof. Nantawe the current Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Loss the Governorship not because he is not good or Senator Simon Bako Lalong the former didn't perform well. But rather on religious ground, why should the Former Governor Lalong a Christian be a Director General for Bola/Shattima Muslim-Muslim Ticket.

The support gotten by the late GNS a fellow Berom in 2015 a cousin of Johnah Jang from the same DU villages was still based on religious sentiment, COCCIN/Catholic. As you rightly said, Sen. Lalong won the Governorship in 2015 with 40,000 votes. This current Governor Caleb Muftwang won the seat in 2023 with 50,000 Votes.

Assuming, the Nyesome Wike Boy Governor didn't Decamp to APC due to unresolvable crisis in PDP. Then, it is in order to deduce going by the merging of winning/Losing that APC will likely win the Plateau State Guber race in 2027 polls whether the current governor decamp to APC or not.

No wonder Peter Obi was very wise to have cash out on religious gullible like you in 2023 polls by scoring 500,000+ votes in Plateau State, while despite religious hardliners like The Jagaban of Borgu with his Muslim-Muslim Ticket still scored 350,000 votes on the Plateau.

Cutezt:
LMAO, in your mind, anyone against the devilish APC thieves is playing the religious card?

One of the mistakes i made in my life that i still regret till date was voting for Buhari against GEJ in 2015, In the whole of Jenta-Apata ward, only 2 of us voted for Buhari, and it was a topic in the entire area because i am quite popular, so if you are trying to go that way, you have failed.

I went through your comments, and the way you are defending the APC, there is nothing I will say that will make you agree that Lalong was a mistake and a disaster that should never happen again on the Plateau. His tenure was terrible, I dont even stay fully in Jos, but each time i go back home, it felt like going 2 years into the past, the state was regressing, no new roads, poverty, only patch patch roads, the road from Plateau hospital to Polo was dak at night, cult clashes everywhere, i cant even say it all. He was popularly known as the 'Patch Patch' governor because of his love for patching up roads made by Jang and the previous administrations, instead of actually making new roads, and that patching only happens when the President is visiting the state. The Apata roads that he scattered, till he left, he never fixed it, go and see it for yourself today under Mutfwang.

You are trying to twist the narrative, Plateau people were never against Lalong being campaign director, they don't have problems with that cos they know, right from the CPC days, APC has never won and will never win the state in Presidential elections, they were instead against the entire APC, and Lalong as a govenor. I, in particular, was never against Nentawe; his downfall was the Lalong alliance. You do not expect people to vote for Lalong's boy, fully knowing Lalong was a disaster himself, do you? And isn't it suspicious that all the Hausa/Muslims were fully backing Nentawe? Does it not look suspicious?

By the way, how is the Nentawe performing as minister right now? Was he not the one trending for saying He used AI to identify poor Nigerians?

The 2023 elections were never held based on religious sentiments. Nentawe had the full backing and support of thousands of Plateau people, unlike 2015 when GNS only had the Berom and a few others, the Muslims were clearly never voting for the tribe that is their nightmare onf the Plateau, so he did not even get any votes from the Muslim community. The same thing that played out to give LP that many votes in 2023 was the same thing that played out for GNS; he lost simply because of 'protest votes' by the people.

If there is anyone who carries religion on his head, it's you, cos I can swear with my life that you have never voted for any party outside the traditional 'Islamically' perceived parties (APC,CPC,ANPP, etc)

suleimanshehu:
The whole world knows that during Jang a Berom Governor the whole Jos has being in crisis mostly religious, however your people priced Market in Dogon Nahauwa when you massacre Fulani's, and since then your battle has now been with Fulani, the Hausas/Muslims of Jos are now free from attacks, your people have bought market by inviting Fulani's to your conflicts. However, through out the tenure of Lalong, Plateau is relatively peaceful compare to Presently and during the Tenure of Johnah Jang the Berom Governor, and Joshua Chibi Dariye the Mushere from Bokkos LGA.

Plateau State has 17 LGAs and Sen. Lalong has distributed growth and development to all LGAs, unlike Jang the Berom Governor that constructed roads in DU his village that even other Beroms felt marginalized that only Goats lied on them as early as 4pm. Lalong is a governor for all, while your Jang is a Berom Governor. So, just because Lalong did not construct the road in your area, then is not a performer, really!

On the issue of Muslims in Plateau State. Stop misleading outsiders, Plateau State have Muslim population in a range of 15-80% in the following LGAs Jos North, Jos East, Mangu, Bassa, Bokkos, Mikang, Shendam, Quanpam, Kanke, Kanem and Wase LGAs and more than 80% of Plateau Muslim are indegenous to the state. However, the Muslim population are scattered virtually across all the zones, hence people like you will claim they don't exist.

I know you will say, why then Muslim are not made Deputy Governors in Plateau State? The Answer, For instance, in Kaduna State, since Mal Nasir Elrufai second tenure as Governor and even presently have Muslim Governor/Deputy, does it mean there are no Christians in Kaduna State?

I hope you won't commit suicide if Governor Muftwang the Nyesome Wike boy Decamp to APC, or better still APC win the Governorship in 2027 Plateau Governorship.

Anyway, nice interacting with you. But, the point still Berom or any other tribe can claim majority or superiority in Plateau State.
You people vote base on sentiment or religious ground.