2023: Voting money bags is like taking poison, Guber Aspirant warns delegates, electorates

By: Lovins Yakubu, May 09, 2022

Chief Garba Pwul (SAN), Plateau State APC governotorial Aspirant

As political parties get set to conduct primaries to elect candidates who would fly the flags of their various political parties in the forhcoming 2023 general elections, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and frontline Plateau State Governoship Aspirant under the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Chief Garba Pwul has warned against voting highest bidders to positions of leadership if the people really want to get it right.

Pwul, in a recent chat with some journalists in his office along Barrack Road Jos, was speaking against the backdrop of the fact that the political space is dominated by money bags, a trend that has been in place since the advent of this democratic dispensation in 1999 and equally the reason why the people have not gotten real dividends of democracy. The Aspirant said that why people that are elected into public offices don't see the need to render genuine service was because such people feel they have bought themselves into such offices and as it is the case in business world, they spent their tenures trying to recoup and make more money so they can buy the next election. However, he noted with concerns how the electorates always regretted their decision yet you see them committing the same mistake again during the next election, "You would notice that the electorates always regret electing money bags to leadership positions but you see them commit the same mistake again in the next election and this has been the trend since 1999.

"The point I am making is that, voting highest bidder to leadership position is like taking a poison which would eventually kill you.

"In this case, it would kill your economy, kill your society, kill your future and the future of your children.

"But for me, when other Aspirants are playing money as reason to be voted for, I am playing principles, issues, doctrine, service and values.

"Therefore, my greatest difficulty which I must overcome is educating and creating awareness to the delegates for the primary election.

They need to be sufficiently enlightened on the danger of playing into the hands of money bags. My money is hard-earned.

"I mean I worked hard to earned my money and would not just throw it away because I want to buy an opportunity to serve the people.

"I want to serve the people from the bottom of my heart and whoever that values my decision, understands and believe I have the capacity to deliver should give me the needed support without expecting anything in return.

"What I am saying in a nutshell is that if you're coming to serve the people genuinely why do you have to buy your way? To me, there is more to it than meets the eye", he said.

Pwul said that he has joined the governorship race in confidence given the fact that he has added value to both the APC and to the people of Plateau through his profession as a private legal practitioner. "I am a foundation member of the APC. I have been the person handling cases involving the party since when the party was crawling like a toddler and not even reckon with.

"I have been instrumental to all the successes recorded by the APC from 2015 after the election that saw the emergence of Governor Simon Lalong and subsequent elections including Local Government Elections".

The Aspirant further hinted that his 40 years of private legal practice have been years of humanitarian services to the people of Plateau State. "It has been 40 years of giving scholarship, 40 years of offering help to the downtrodden.

"Forty years of representing widows, 40 years of offering social service to Communities - Boreholes have been sunk, schools roof blown up have been repaired, Churches have been roofed, clinics have been built, hospital bills (of patients discharged from hospital but could not pay) have been settled.

"You would agree with me that you can't quantity some of these services. However, I derived pleasure in reaching out to the needy because God has blessed me abundantly and I count it a priviledge to touch the lives of many in the society", Pwul stated.

The Legal luminary further stated that he has also mentored many in his profession stressing that some of his mentees have established their law firms and have equally contributed to the society immensely through their philanthropic gestures. "Consequently, there is hardly an end to the value I have added to the society", he said.

He furher posited that the greatest tool you can give anybody is education, saying that it is for this reason that he (though not a teacher or educationist), deemed it fit to established a post secondary Institution called Christian Royal College in 2010. "Nine years later, that College produced a student who had the best result in the whole country when he made A1 in nine subjects that he entered for.

Pwul

"A wonderful feat has been achieved. Only in 1955 was such a feat achieved by the late J. D Gomwalk. The young boy is currently studying in the USA on a scholarship that translate to N80million per annum hoping to be a Neuro Surgeon.

"So, for me, these are blessings that have gone beyond Plateau, even beyond Nigeria and begening to touch the whole world and I am glad because at the end of the day, it is one world, one humanity, one value". Pwul said.

On the issue of security, the Governoship Aspirant said if given the mandate to be Governor, would strengthen traditional Institution by given more powers to the traditional rulers to be in total control of their domain.

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