Nasarawa 2015: I Warned Al-Makura Against Single- Term Pact – Ewuga

Serving Senator, Solomon Ewuga has disclosed that he warned the Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura’s against entering the now contentious pact not to re-contest as governor in 2015. The single-term pact reportedly entered into during the 2011 Nasarawa governorship campaigns is being denied by Al-Makura’s camp. They insist the people of Nasarawa will decide whether Al-Makura should contest or not. Ewuga in a chat with selected newsmen in Abuja reiterated his plan to contest the Nasarawa governership come 2015. He also reacted to allegation of financing the Ombatse ethnic militia and the insurgency in the country’s north. On Al-Makura’s reported single-term pact, Ewuga said, “It is not for him (Al-Makura) to deny it, and then to be faced with concrete details of data produced on the newspapers sponsored by Ta’al Campaign Organization, his campaign group. You don’t deny what you have done because of short term interest.” He added, “He (Al-Makura) didn’t say it behind my back, he said it during a campaign and I kept telling him don’t say that. Now it has happened. What is my own problem in that? It’s for him to go back to the people that I didn’t say so or when I was saying it, I didn’t mean it. Now that the sweet in the apple is irresistible, I want to continue, fine. What is my concern with that, he has to do it, not me.” The Senator recently dumped Al-Makura’s All Progressive Congress (APC) and returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Ewuga disclosed that he was contesting in court his indictment by the retired Justice Joseph F. Gbadeyan-led judicial commission of inquiry into the killing of security personnel at Alakyo village by suspected Ombatse ethnic militia. He is accused of financier of Ombatse. “I am in court to challenge the import of the matter (indictment), Ewuga disclosed. On the insurgency which has ravaged large swathe of Nigeria’s north, Ewuga warned against politicising the issue of insecurity.