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Plateau North Senatorial District
Plateau North Senatorial District in Plateau State covers six local government areas, namely  Barkin-Ladi, Bassa, Jos East, Jos North, Jos South, and Riyom. Plateau North is currently represented in the Senate by Istifanus Gyang of the People's Democratic Party, PDP. List of senators representing Plateau North {, class="wikitable" , + !Senator !Party !Year !Assembly !Electoral history , - , Davou Zang , PDP , 1999 - 2003 , 4th , , - , Timothy Adudu , ANPP , 2003 - 2007 , 5th , , - , , , 2007 - 2011 , 6th , , - , Gyang Dantong , PDP , 2011 - 2012 , 7th , Died in office , - , Gyang Pwajok , PDP , 2012 - 2015 , 7th , Elected to complete Dantong's term , - , Jonah Jang , PDP , 2015 - 2019 , 8th , , - , Istifanus Gyang , PDP , 2019–present , 9th 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom d ...
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Plateau State
Plateau State is the twelfth-largest Nigerian state. It is in the centre of the country includes a range of hills surrounding the Jos Plateau, its capital, and the entire plateau itself. Plateau State is described as "The Home of Peace and Tourism". With natural formations of rocks, hills and waterfalls, it derives its name from the Jos Plateau and has a population of around 3.5 million people. Geography Adjacent states * Bauchi State – to the north east * Kaduna State – to the north west * Nasarawa State – to the south west * Taraba State – to the south east Boundaries Plateau State is located in the North Central Zone out of the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. With an area of 26,899 square kilometres, the state has an estimated population of about three million people. It is located between latitude 8°24' N and 10°30' N and longitude 8°32' E and 10°38' E. The state is named after the Jos Plateau, a mountainous area in the north of the sta ...
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All Nigeria Peoples Party
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (abbr. ANPP) was a political party in Nigeria. Under the leadership of Late Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke who was its vice presidential candidate to General Muhammadu Buhari in the 2007 presidential elections. The party won a paltry 32.2% of the vote behind ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Buhari was the ANPP candidate in the 2003 presidential election, with Chuba Okadigbo as the running mate taking second place and about 18% of the vote according to official results."Huge win for Nigeria's Yar'Adua"
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The party assumed a new leadership following its September 2010 national convention in . A successful convention was held at
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Jonah David Jang
Air Commodore Jonah David Jang ( Retired, Rtd) CON (born 13 March 1944) is a Nigerian statesman who was the Governor of Plateau State from 2007 to 2015. He had previously served as Military Governor of Benue State and Gongola State He ran successfully for re-election on 26 April 2011. In 2015, Jang ran and won Plateau North senate seat as his term as Governor of Plateau State drew to a close. In 2018 Jang declared his senate seat vacant and said it was time for the people of Plateau North to decide who would represent them at the red chamber. Jang was at the time making a nocturnal political consultations to run for the presidential ticket of the main opposition, PDP for the 2019 presidential election. He was a founding member of the Peoples' Democratic Party in the days that preceded the second military to civilian transfer of power in 1999 ushering the Nigerian Fourth Republic. In the new millennium democratic dispensation for which Jang had so much fought to wrest powe ...
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Gyang Pwajok
Gyang Nyam Shom Pwajok (March 15, 1966 – October 28, 2015) was a Nigerian politician and a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Pwajok was the youngest national Senator during the upper chamber's 7th Assembly, which was in session from 2011 to 2015. He was the 2015 PDP candidate for Governor of Plateau State, but narrowly lost the Plateau gubernatorial election to Simon Lalong of the All Progressives Congress on April 11, 2015. Pwajok was born on March 15, 1966. He was an academic and lecturer at the Plateau State Polytechnic and the University of Jos before entering politics. He served as the Director of Research and planning during the administration of former Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang from 2007 to 2012. In 2012, Senator Gyang Dantong died while attending a mass funeral for victims of an unrest in Barkin-ladi. Gyang Pwajok won the 2012 Senatorial election to succeed Dantong in the Plateau North Senatorial zone. He was the youngest member of the Nigeri ...
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Davou Zang
Davou D. B. Zang was elected Senator for Plateau North Senatorial District of Plateau State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999. After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999, he was appointed to committees on Solid Minerals, Industries, Science & Technology, Communication, Power & Steel, Commerce and Special Projects (vice-chairman). He ran for reelection in April 2003 but was defeated by Timothy Adudu of the All Nigeria People's Party The All Nigeria Peoples Party (abbr. ANPP) was a political party in Nigeria. Under the leadership of Late Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke who was its vice presidential candidate to General Muhammadu Buhari in the 2007 presidential elections. The party w ... (ANPP). He is scion of the famous tin magnate and philanthropist, Dalo. D. B. Zang. References Living people People from Plateau State Peoples Democratic Party members of the Senate ...
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Barkin Ladi
Barkin Ladi (or Barakin Ladi) is a Local Government Area in Plateau State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Gwol at . It has an area of 1,032 km and a population of 175,267 at the 2006 census. Plateau state Polytechnic is Located in this town. The postal code A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal ... of the area is 932. References Local Government Areas in Plateau State {{PlateauNG-geo-stub ...
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People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)
The Peoples Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with its main rival, the All Progressives Congress. Its policies generally lie towards the centre-right of the political spectrum. It won every presidential election between 1999 and 2011 and was, until the 2015 elections, the governing party in the Fourth Republic, although sometimes amid a few controversial electoral circumstances. History In 1998, the PDP in its first presidential primary election held in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria nominated former military leader Olusegun Obasanjo who had just been released from detention as political prisoner as the presidential candidate in the elections of February 1999, with Atiku Abubakar (Governor-Elect of Adamawa State and a former leading member of the Social Democratic Party) as his running mate. They won the presidential election and were inaugurated 29 May 1999. In the legislative election held on 12 April 200 ...
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