The argument over which presidential candidate has the support of Governor Nyesom Wike‘s led G-5 Governors has made Senator Jonah Jang and Governor Simon Lalong exchange words.

While Plateau Governor Lalong believed strongly the G-5 Governors are working underground for the APC presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his predecessor, Jang is of the view the G-5 cannot work for Tinubu.

Jang vehemently berated Lalong over his claim in a statement signed by Clinton Garuba in Jos at the weekend.

Responding to the statement of Jang in Jos, Plateau Media and Publicity of the APC PCC, Sylvanus Naman said Jang got it wrong over his comments on Lalong’s claim.

The statement reads: “To say that the G5 Governors have not taken a position on their support for the APC Presidential Candidate is a confirmation of his fear for a Bala Ahmed Tinubu unstoppable victory at the polls.

“He has suddenly remembered how Jonathan lost out in 2015, which he was at the centre of it.

“As stated earlier, Senator Jonah Jang is an outsider of the Integrity Group who is hardly conversant with their internal modus operandi.

“The Director General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Governor Simon Lalong could not be speaking nonsense as claimed by Jang’s Media Consultant. In fact, he got it totally wrong.

“Where they met and decided to wisely pitch their tent with BAT would not be known to Jang but Lalong is not only privy to it but must be part and parcel of the discussion.

“One does not need the service of a political pundit to tell us that the G5 or Integrity Group have since called it quit with the Atiku ticket. Do we need a better confirmation of Governor Lalong’s assertion than the one coming from the horse’s mouth and pillar of the G5 himself, the steely Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike when he recently responded to a journalist’s inquiry thus;

” Yes it is true that I have directed all Local Government Chairmen, Commissioners, Board Chairmen, Senior Special Advisers, Special Advisers, Senior Special Assistants, DGs, Board Members and all my aides to work for Bola Ahmed Tinubu and I owe no one any apology”?

The statement added: “The G5 Governors are patriots who have decided to go with a very patriotic Nigerian in the person of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu rather than presidential candidates with divisive tendencies.

“Jang should stop boiling his adrenaline over his morbid condemnation of anything coming from his immediate successor.” (The Nation)

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