Maku declares interest in Nasarawa governorship

The minister of information, Labaran Maku, has declared interest in contesting the 2015 gubernatorial election in Nasarawa state.

The minister is expected to resign on October 20 to pursue his ambition.

He made this disclosure on Sunday at a special thanksgiving mass at the Catholic Diocese of Lafia, St Patrick’s Parish, Akwanga, Nasarawa state.

Maku, who donated the sum of N7.6 million to the cathedral, remarked that all what he had achieved since 1999 was by the grace of God.

The minister noted that it was time to sacrifice the comfort of a ministerial position at the centre to join his people “in the wilderness ‎in Nasarawa” to stop the killings and miscarriage of justice in the state.

He maintained that he was not going into politics for the gains of the office of governor, but to liberate his people.

Maku said: “Just thank God for me, just pray for me because by next week October 20, anyone in the cabinet that wants to contest election must step down because the time has come for us to do that.

“It is time to make my interest ‎known by the grace of God I will sacrifice the comfort of a minister, to go into the wilderness.

“I want to sacrifice the comfort of the high office that I am in now to join my people in the wilderness in Nasarawa state to fight for peace and justice in this state.

“There is too much blood being shed here, there is too much evil taking place here, there is too much ‎destruction going on in Nasarawa state. The time has come for us to ask God to bring this era to an end. And it is only God that can do it. We are asking God that as we step out voluntarily which is very important to me, that as we go into the wilderness that God as He did for Moses he will lead us to cross the red sea of politics, rip water from the rock, give us manner of heaven, pull down the wall of Jericho.

“There may be giants out there, all over, but like Caleb we trust God, we are able to conquer, we are able to subdue. So all we need is prayers and thank God for what He has done for me, not for what we are looking at, being governor will not really add anything to my name, I think I have made the entire name I could make in Nigeria. But this sacrifice ‎is for my people, to liberate my people.”