NORTHERN SENATORS DISPLAYED SENTIMENT AGAINST PLATEAU STATE AT CONSTITUTION REVIEW VOTING.

Senator I. D. Gyang, Esq.

The religious and ethnic sentiment which a Jos based Islamic cleric displayed at the Bye-election of Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency when he called for voting on religious grounds has been replicated by Senators of the core Islamic North who voted against the Bill for an Act to Alter the name of Barikin Ladi Local Government Area to “Gwol”, Local Government Area, Plateau State.

The Senate voted on the Report of the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution on Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bills, 2022 in which six Bills came for change of names of Local government Areas. All the Bills passed with exception of Gwol which failed due to the opposition of Senators of the core North. Those that passed are:

1). Change of names of Afikpo North and Afikpo South in Ebonyi state to Afikpo and Edda LGAs - 93 registered, 90 voted for, 2 against and 1 abstained.

2). Change of name of Kunchi LGA of Kano State to Ghari LGA - 93 registered, 89 voted for, 1 voted against and 3 did not vote.

3). Change of name of Egbado North and Egbado South LGA of Ogun State to Yewa North and Yewa South - 97 registered, 93 voted for, 2 voted against, 2 abstained and 2 did not vote.

4). Correction of name Atigbo LGA of Oyo State to Atisbo LGA - 87 registered, 79 voted for, 6 voted against none abstained and 3 did not vote.

5). Correction of the name Abio/Akpor LGA to Obio/Akpor LGA. 96 registered, 91 voted yes, 2 voted against, none abstained and 3 did not vote.

The sentiment in the voting became visible when the results for Gwol showed out of a total number of 96 Senators who registered, 67 voted for, 26 against, while 3 did not vote. The number needed for each of the Bills to scale through is 73 yes votes.

Truth is, while the Northern Senators saw nothing wrong in voting to change the name of KUNCHI LGA in Kano State to GHARI LGA, they turned round to oppose that of GWOL typical of their opposition against anything Plateau or that resembles Plateau State.

The people of Plateau State abhor the attitude and betrayal of Senators of the core North who voted against the collective decision taken at the meeting of the so-called Northern Senators preceding the Senate sitting.

The action of the Northern Senators has again unveiled the deception and hypocrisy with which the core North perceives and treats ethnic minorities of the Middle Belt states, Plateau State in particular.

Truth is, the destiny and heritage of Plateau State and people can never be outsourced no matter the conspiracy.

Musa Ibrahim Ashoms
Special Assistant
Media & Protocol to
Senator I. D. Gyang, Esq.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/constitution-review-gyang-berates-northern-senators-for-voting-against-plateau/
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Mynd44

Idiots, used and dump tribe

Una never start ,when you destroy your only weapon you have against the fulani oligarchy, which is politics and religion. You will never see the people of Taraba wail about anything because they know the power they have,which is politics and religion they use it's to their advantage.

who is he? another comedian?

Hisbah21:
who is he? another comedian?

What is comic about the Op please?

My question is, is Barkin-ladi a mooslim word?

If not,why did those who opposed do so?

The Senator is insensitive to the possible crisis his motive may lead to. He accused them of baseless ethno-religious bias but he is so selfish to have never mind that his support to change the name is also ethno-religiously motivated and can be perceived as having a sinister motive!

You won't see senators from core north supporting anything this contradict their oligarchical and religious expansion.

Not even party affiliation can make them agree to vote for a name change of a LGA that bears the identity of their religion.

Voting for the name change will stand as a betrayal of every fanatic and jingoist tenets they believe.

That LGA is one of the structural faults created by IBB that is still cracking till today.

ArewaNorth:
The Senator is insensitive to the possible crisis his motive may lead to. He accused them of baseless ethno-religious bias but he is so selfish to have never mind that his support to change the name is also ethno-religiously motivated and can be perceived as having a sinister motive!

Just listen to your self,a people wants to give a name that represents the original owners of the land,the Islamic core north saw everything wrong in it. Systematic land grabbing and fulanization of the local govt is stale,the natives has come to self realization, so much of 'one indivisible north'.

The reason you want to change the name also has ethnic and religion undertones.



The northern Senators simply best you in your own game.

And Lalong is enjoying the title of Chairman, Northern Governor's Forum

When the state still get mumu governor that is still romancing with the enemy...Abeg!!

AustineE1:

Just listen to your self,a people wants to give a name that represents the original owners of the land,the Islamic core north saw everything wrong in it. Systematic land grabbing and fulanization of the local govt is stale,the natives has come to self realization, so much of 'one indivisible north'.

Do u know the people of Barikin Ladi?
You just want the crazy senator to make a move that will cause chaos and u will come again and say other rubbish. All those who proposed name changes have strong reasons unlike this ethnocentric reason.
You always choose to be bigot!

isn't it high time middle belt states (except niger) understand they're regarded as outsiders in the north?