Further to the ongoing political situation of Kaduna State, arising from the death of late Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa and also ‘back door’ selection of Ambassador Nuhu Bajoga, chairman of Peoples Democratic Party in Kaduna State as Deputy Governor nominee to newly sworn-in Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, under Vice President Namadi Sambo’s political scheming and bidding, using Governor Yero as the man behind mask, we, the Coalition of Concerned Southern Kaduna Professionals, have decided to register our grievances as professionals in different field of human endeavors being conscious of the excruciating political situation the people of Southern Kaduna are in.
It is on this premise that we resolved as follows after critical study of the trend:
We are against the selection of Nuhu Audu Bajoga, present State Chairman of PDP as Deputy Governor Nominee from Southern Kaduna area, because it is a calculated plot to deprive the Southern Kaduna area from holding the PDP State Chair that is of immense political value and significance. It is also in the spirit of renewed political enslavement of our people using such a divisive and sinister Greek gift.
There are more qualified youthful and competent Southern Kaduna politicians and professionals who fit into role expected of a sound Deputy Governor in all means.
We are reiterating our stand against Vice President Namadi Sambo’s choice of over 63 year old Ambassador Nuhu Bajoga to a 44 year old Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, the Executive Governor of Kaduna State despite his co-called assurance of non-interferences, which we have unraveled from statements attributed to Bajoga himself in the media.
We are declaring our total resistance of this action, as part of thee encroaching political extinction of our people via the promotion of ‘gerontocracy’and complete sidelining of Southern Kaduna’s younger generation and the institutionalization of Northern Kaduna over lordship over our people.
For Ambassador Bajoga, he should avoid being used as willing tool to further enslave our people, we expect him to raise above a personal quest for political power in favour of the survival and preservation of the common heritage and dignity of the Southern Kaduna people. If he allows his ego to rule over his emotions, history will record him in bad light as a traitor and an agent of the retrogressive forces against our cause.
This is a calculated political exclusion of our people with long term effects by those who wish to exploit the untimely death of our governor to plant political and economic mines in Southern Kaduna in order to foster their repressive tendencies of yesteryears. This act of imposing a 63 years old man would not have been conceived in good faith since the man, Nuhu Bajoga, would be too old to aspire for the office of the governor at the expiration of the present administration–this will ultimately scuttle our chances of piloting the affairs of the state in alternate manner as required by the principle of fair play.
Signed:Dr. John Danfulani
CONVENER
23rdDecember, 2012, Kaduna
COALITION OF CONCERNED SOUTHERN KADUNA PROFESSIONALS
