The Member Representing Riyom Constituency at the Plateau State House of Assembly, Hon Timothy Dantong has responded to a reported threat issued by the former member representing Riyom Constituency, Hon Daniel Dem. Hon Timothy Dantong went on to give reasons why he joined “the Concerned Youths” who called for the suspension of Hon Daniel Dem from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State.
In a statement issued to journalists in Jos the Plateau State Capital, Hon Timothy Dantong in his own words stated the issues as follows;
1. I believe that our Party, the PDP is well organized and well structured with proper channels of communications, that if need be for the party to send any important document from the National level to the State, they will not wait to send for just anyone who is available but will follow the appropriate channels of communication.
For an interested party like Hon. Daniel Dem to be a recipient of such document clearly spelt out the motive behind such action.
2. Hon. Dem actually started implementing the content of the documents he claimed he did not know about before it reached the State Secretariat.
I reported his intention days before the arrival of the said document
(When we get to the court we should made available evidence).
3. He instigated the Youth Leader of Attakar Ward through one Danladi magaji, that I, Hon. Timothy Dantong is responsible for the change of his name as an Exco which Danladi Magaji testified during an Exco meeting and is recorded.
4. On the day Hon. Daniel Dem delivered those documents to the State Party Secretariat and without the State Working Committee Sitting to understand the document to make public the said change in the names of exco if its true, Hon. Dem and his boss substituted the chairman of Bum ward. Mr Mungu Ngyang with his former Personal Assistant (PA), Silas Luka during an empowerment program in the house of Sen. ID Gyang. This was later found to be same in the document he brought to the State Secretariat.
Hon Timothy Dantong stressed that many more evidences and testimonies will be made available when we the matter gets to the court.