WHY HON. ALPHONSUS
LONGGAP KOMSOL, REMAIN THE BEST MAN FOR THE PLATEAU MINISTERIAL SLOT
AS President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
started his tenure with some remarkable and outstanding strategies a very
highly reputable, concerned group are urging the President to sustain the tempo
by appointing credible and reliable and renowned politicians who have a very
good track record of hard work, dedication and credibility. And such a person
is HON. ALPHONSUS LONGGAP KOMSOL
The group message reads.
We deemed it fit after careful
research, and as bona fide, loyal and committed members of the Plateau State
chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to state our candid view on who
we thought it best to be given the constitutional ministerial slot from
Plateau.
Our party has greatly lost at the
2023 polls where it dropped from having two Senatorial seats to one, and
earlier from 4 House of Reps members to three and maintained the status quo by
losing Mikang, Shendam and Qua'an Pan, Federal Constituency, but gaining
Mangu/Bokkos Federal Constituency.
Our noble party could not deliver
the Presidency and Governorship elections to victory.
Sadly, we dropped from the ruling
party to the leading opposition party in the state.
Though a ray of hope is beaming
at the horizon over probable victory at the gubernatorial tribunal alongside other
seats, we cannot relent by folding our hands in boosting other areas of
political appointments to regain strength and retake our political leadership
of the state. Furthermore, we cannot rely on unseen court verdicts which are
not sacrosanct by simple optimism which surprises of defeat could spring up.
In light of this, the
constitutional ministerial slot allotted for Plateau requires a charismatic,
forward-looking, patriotic, beloved by all political parties and workaholic
person to attract attention to the party and boost its acceptability once
again.
The right person for this job in
our view is none other than Hon. Alphonsus Longgap Komsol, the immediate past
member representing Mikang, Shendam and Qua'an Pan Federal Constituency in the
National Assembly.
Komsol who was a first-timer in
the National Assembly, has proven his commitment and doggedness in the
discharge of any given assignment selflessly.
Within the span of his four years
of sojourn in the National Assembly, he put the interest of his constituents
above his consideration; thereby endearing himself to the good wish of the
greatest population of the people he represented across the board irrespective
of party, religion and ethnicity inclinations.
Prior to his victory at the 2019
polls, Komsol with his wealth of experience being in the corridor of Plateau
State Government from the beginning of the Fourth Republic weathered the
attempt to deny him victory at the APC primary and overwhelmingly won because
of his antecedents.
If the APC wants to remain strong
till 2027, its Minister from Plateau must be someone beloved across political
lines, Senatorial divide, ethnoreligious consideration and above all a selfless
workaholic whose pedigree has proven so.
We are aware that a Minister is a
Federal Government servant who is expected to discharge his duty faithfully
without prejudice, victimization, sectionalism and corruption. Of such calibre
and sound material, is Alphonsus Longgap Komsol. He will only not bring pride
to the Federal Government but to Plateau and the entire country.
Of all the APC members in Plateau
who hold no elective position, there is none with the good wish that is capable
of attracting more followers to the APC than Hon. Komsol. If any thinks it's
untrue, they can embark on independent research at the grassroots and set an
opinion poll objectively.
Suffice us to mention Komsol's
major achievements as the first APC Federal legislator of his constituency He:
- passed bills for the creation
of Federal Polytechnic Shendam, Federal Medical Centre Piapung and the Federal
University of Agriculture Namu.
The Federal Polytechnic Shendam
saw the light of day, when then President, Muhammadu Buhari signed it into law
and was sited at Nya'k in Shendam LGA.
It is worthy of note that Komsol
believes in governance as a continuum, which was why he continued the bill of
creating the Federal Polytechnic in Shendam from where his predecessor,
Johnbull Shekarau, stopped.
- constructed 32 classroom blocks
spread across his constituency.
- constructed 3 well-equipped ICT
centres in his constituency.
- mounted 500 solar panel street
lights across his constituency.
- constructed a storey building
model school at N250m which is ongoing.
- Attracted construction of Gidan
Adamu - Kupkwap road at N500m.
- constructed Derailt road at
N100m.
- distributed tens of thousands
of bags of fertilizer to farmers every year, since his assumption of office.
- attracted Federal Government
soft loans for 500 people some got two million, one million, five hundred thousand
and so on.
- Secured Petroleum Development
Trust Fund scholarship for some students doing their Master, PhD and degree
programmes overseas and in the country.
- yearly pays the Joint Admission
Matriculation Board, JAMB, fee for so many of his constituents seeking
admission to various
universities.
- sank numerous motorized and
hand pump boreholes across his constituency.
- sponsored recruitment of some
of his constituents into the Police Force, Civil Defence and others.
- empowered his constituents yearly
with numerous grinding machines, motorcycles and sewing machines.
- Secured National Directorate of
Employment loan for 300 people at N20k each.
- distributed a car each to the
three APC LG chairmen of his constituency.
- gave out 32 motorcycles to the
APC ward chairmen of the 32 wards of his constituency.
- gave out five cars and 20
motorcycles to churches and mosques in his constituency.
- gave traditional rulers cars
and motorcycles.
On the political front, Komsol
was a member of the Planning and Strategic Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Presidential
Campaign Council and was also in charge of the Presidential Primary election
delegates where he convinced a host of the delegates from Plateau state to vote
for Tinubu even when most party stalwarts that are parading themselves now that
they are Tinubu's where busy working for then Vice President, Professor Yemi
Osibanjo and Rt. Hon.
Rotimi Amaechi attached religious
sentiments to the presidential primary. But Komsol refused to accept their
posture and remained with Tinubu and that was what cost him his return ticket
to the House of Reps.
Komsol was APC Presidential
Secretary, Contact for Mobilization North Central Zone and State Coordinator,
Independent Campaign Council, Plateau State.
Komsol has proven his love and passion
for Nigeria and Nigerians.
As the saying goes, "Charity
begins at home," and "he that is faithful in the little shall be
faithful in much," Komsol has proven his mettle in them, showing he is
fully set for a higher assignment.
If APC must have a firm grip in
Plateau, Komsol should be considered for the Ministerial position as a huge
contribution. He will deliver and boost the performance of his ministry.
Thank you
Signed:
John Ribam Chairman
Abdul Dakop Secretary
Shalvel Yilwan PRO for
Concerned Patriotic Vanguard
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