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| Hon Festus Fuanter, Commissioner of Lands, Survey & Town Planning Plateau State |
As Plateau PDP names
Jang, Mantu as polling unit agents for supplementary election, Festus Faunter
says David needed just a stone to kill Goliath.
By Lovins Yakubu
March 21, 2019
Following the announcement of prominent names such as that of
Jonah David Jang, a serving senator of the Federal Republic and former Governor
of Plateau State and Sen. Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu, a former Deputy Senate
President by the main opposition party, the People’s Democratic party (PDP) as
its polling unit agents for the Governorship supplementary election scheduled
for Saturday 23, a staunch member of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Hon Festus
Faunter said the Biblical David needed only a stone to kill Goliath.
Speaking to African
Drum in his office recently, Faunter, who is also the Plateau state
commissioner of lands, Survey and Town planning said the APC was not shaken by
the caliber of personalities the PDP has paraded as its polling agents for the
election.
“David did not need more than one stone to kill Goliath. If
they assembled all their senior party members to go for the re-run, we are also
going to assemble our younger generation because this election is about aged
group generation and this age group is the most active in terms of election and
electoral value. It is the group that falls between the ages of 18 and 35 so,
these are the people we would put up against the Jangs and Mantus of this
world. We believe in the miracle of David and Goliath.
So, if a Goliath in the name of Jang would be there, we would
equally have our David that would swing the sling at the Goliath and that’s the
way we are looking at it”
Faunter
wondered what gave the PDP the kind of confidence they are exhibiting. He
however stressed that sometimes when one is losing a fight, they often put a
posture of confident in other to give strength to their supporters but in
actual sense, it is false confidence.
According to
him, ”if you consider the arithmetic and add up all the figures, you would
discover that even if the APC did not go for the re-run and allows the PDP to
get all the votes that would be cast in the election, it would not meet up the
margin in the election, because we have
already come into terms with the fact that out of 49,000 votes that are in contest,
more than 10,000 have not collected their PVCs. And so, what we are actively
talking about is 30,000 plus votes and from the figure added to difference that
already existed between the APC and the PDP (which is 44,000), cannot give the
latter the election
He said that
be that as it may, the APC intended to approach the supplementary election with
the same strength and vigor the party did during the main election. “We would
not rest on our oars because we are already leading. We must win decisively so
we can put all the doubts behind us and commence the process of building a
greater Plateau.”
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