The Minister of Information Labaran Maku has disclosed his intention to resign his position as the Information minister on the 20th of October, 2014 so as to enable him contest for the Nassarawa Guber election come come 2015.
The minister opened up on Sunday during a special mass thanksgiving at the Catholic Diocese of Lafia, St. Patrick’s Parish, Akwanga, Nasarawa State.
Maku at the occasion also announced donation of N7.6 million from his family and his friends both in cabinet and outside the cabinet for the Cathedral in Lafia.
Thanking God, he said, that whatever he has achieved from 1999 till date was by the grace of God.
According to him, it is time to sacrifice the comfort of a ministerial position at the center to join his people and go into the wilderness in Nasarawa State to stop the killings, miscarriage of justice and liberate the people in the State.
Stressing that he was a typical example of grass to grace because of God’s favour, he said that he was born to peasants farmers who did not even record the date of his birth in a village that is likened to the biblical reference that “can anything good come out of Nazareth”.
“Just thank God for me, just pray for me because by next week October 20th, 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, ” Maku stated.
Source: #The Nation
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