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born 1944 Nigeria

Jonah David Jang CON (born 13 March 1944) is a former Nigerian military officer and politician who served as the senator representing the Plateau North senatorial district from 2015 to 2019. He previously served as the governor of Plateau State from 2007 to 2015, and as military governor of Benue and Gongola States.

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One thing that I always have against Nigerian journalists is that you don't do investigative journalism.

The Military cannot create a Constitution for a civil and democratic society.

Such Constitution, as we have now cannot stand and no matter the amendments, it will not work.

The problem is criminality, not ethnicity.

Thank God that you said losing power not that we lost election.

There is no place in Plateau where Fulani people are not living peacefully.

The Government must allow people to deliberate, debate and discuss the issues and questions that have arisen out of the Constitution.

The military succeeded in making sure that we lost our values.

The 1999 Constitution (As Amended), is problematic because it gives some people undue advantage over the others.

I cannot tell here in this interview how our plans to win power will be. I may as well go and sit down with APC and give them.

Everything changed after the coup that overthrew General Yakubu Gowon.

Nigeria was far better than what it is today.

Rejecting what he described as attempts by armed herders to dominate indigenous communities in Plateau State.

If we want to run a federal system of government, we should run it properly.

The Buhari thing was like a hurricane.

Those of you who were here on the Plateau when I was governor knew I was very worried and concerned because it was the problem I faced as a governor for eight years.

If you know Plateau very well, before I came into government there were a lot of crises.

I am an apostle and disciple of restructuring of Nigeria because we cannot be calling ourselves a federation, and yet, we are running a unitary system of government.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jonah David Jang (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.