Jonah Jang, a former governor of
Plateau state, says his priority if elected Nigeria’s president will be to
fight corruption.
Addressing reporters in Abuja on
Monday, Jang said he is the best candidate to pick the presidential ticket of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for 2019.
He added that his experience as a
retired military general would be used to tackle the nation’s security
challenges.
The former governor, who
currently represents Plateau north at the senate, is facing trisl for alleged
fraud.
Alongside a former cashier in the
office of the secretary of the state government, Yusuf Pam, the Economic and
Financial Comes Commission (EFCC) is prosecuting him for allegedly diverting
about N6.3 billion public funds before he left office in 2015.
“I will intend to seriously look
at the matter of corruption. Fighting corruption will be our priority but not
the way this administration is fighting corruption,” Jang said after submitting
his nomination form at the PDP secretariat.
“EFCC and ICPC are not
established to just follow political opponents. If you want to stop corruption,
it is not by arresting people here and there; there is a route where this
corruption comes from.”
On his chances of beating bigwigs
like former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Senate President Bukola Saraki,
who are also presidential aspirants of the PDP, he said: “Seeing my background
as an accomplished military general that fought to keep Nigeria as one during
the civil war and having governed as a military governor and transited very
successfully from military life to democracy, I want to believe that there is
no one better qualified than me.”
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