Jos Lecture Pantami MP3

Jos Lecture Pantami MP3

Lectures About The Genocide Which occur At Jos March 2010

The Plateau State Local Government Councils election has come and gone. The problems created by the elections will take a very long time to resolve. The bloodshed, maiming and carnage that followed the elections will haunt the State for ever.

Few things remain undisputed as facts. First is that the elections was held on an odd day as far as holding elections in Nigeria, a Thursday. No explanation, no matter how unreasonable, was offered by either the body responsible for the elections (PLASIEC) or the Plateau State Government.

Another undisputed and undeniable fact is that the usual election results collation centre for Jos North Local Government Area was changed from the Jos North Local Government Secretariat to Kabong, at the outskirt of the Jos. It should also be added that Kabong is one hundred per cent populated by the so called indigenes of Jos North who are mostly Christians.

It is also not in dispute that the same Local Government elections in Plateau State were cancelled after it was completed in most of the 17 Local Government Areas of the State in March 2008. All the reasons adduced by the State Government for the cancellation was accepted by only the PDP, the party perceived by many to be loosing the elections in some key Local Government Areas, including Jos North.

It is also a well known fact that Honourable Samaila A. Mohammed is currently the honourable member representing Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives. He secured a sizeable number of authentic votes which both the Election Petition Tribunal and the Appeal Tribunal confirmed. Before him, Honourable Shehu Sale Hassan contested and won the same seat and represented the same Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives between 2003 and 2004. Both won the seat under the ANPP.

It is also a fact that elections into Jos North Local Government Council were held last in 1999 with the tenure of those elected ending in 2002. Since then the last government of Chief Joshua C. Dariye failed to conduct election into the council. The general believe was that the failure to conduct the election was just to prevent a Hausa/Fulani Muslim, regarded as “settler” in Jos from winning the election. This believe is a supported with due consideration of the numerical strength of the so called Hausa/Fulani “settlers” in Jos North.

It is also not in dispute that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) fielded both Christians as its Chairmanship and Deputy Chairmanship candidates for Jos North Local Government Council in the ill fated November election. While the leading opposition party in Jos North Local Government Area, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) fielded a Muslim and a Christian as Chairmanship and Deputy Chairmanship candidates in the Local Government Area for the same election.

It is also a fact that a new awareness had emerged in the Plateau State politics following the September 2001 crisis in Jos which later spread to some parts of the entire State, culminating with the imposition of State of Emergency on the State in 2004. That new awareness is to the effect that whosoever was endorsed by a body known as the Council of Ulama always wins election in Jos North Local Government. All those mentioned herein won their various seats via the endorsement of the Council of Ulama. This fact was never hidden to the Plateau State Government as the present governor Jang went begging before the same Council on two occasions for its support in his quest to occupy his present seat. That was in 2003 and 2007.

All the above enumerated facts need to be stressed in order to fully appreciate the events behind the recent unfortunate Jos crisis which will enable any objective mind to apportion blame to where it belongs.