I’m out to save the oppressed, Maku tells Tiv community

Former information minister and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Nasarawa State, Labaran Maku, yesterday met with the Tiv people in the state and solicited their support. Maku said he is out to correct social injustice and structural imbalance and to salvage the oppressed promising justice and fairness to all ethnic groups in the state.

He acknowledged that the Tiv in Nasarawa are suffering injustice and have not been given their fair share in appointments, elective positions and employment.

Maku also lamented that instead, the Tiv have come under violent hostility, with hundreds of their people killed, and thousands displaced.

Maku met with the people in Lafia, the state capital, alongside his running mate, Abu Alhaji Ibrahim.

He recalled the ideals of the agitation that saw Nasarawa carved out of Plateau in 1996, and regretted that rather than actualise the ideals and spirit of the struggle which attracted support from all people of the state, they are now facing the same injustice and structural imbalance in the new state.

Maku said having passed through layers of leadership training, he is the best man for the job, describing his candidature and his running mate as the rescue team that has come to save the people from “the devil and the deep blue sea,” which he likened the PDP in the state, and the APC.

Tiv leaders at the meeting, including Thomas Gar ad two lecturers, Francis Uger and Chief Clement Uhembe as well as Peter Ter, all hailed the candidature of Maku, as representing the wish of the oppressed in the state.