In a build up to the 2023 general elections, political observers in the state were asking if Governor Simon Lalong could break the successor jinx and install his preferred candidate.
However, a look at Lalong’s predecessors shows that Senator Joshua Dariye, who governed the state from 1999 to 2007, could not hand over to the person of his choice on the platform of the PDP. Various interest groups ganged up to frustrate his plan in this regard.
Similarly, Senator Jonah Jang won the 2007 election. He had a good time in office as the governor of Plateau State with a solid political structure. His achievements while in the office are reverence points to date. But despite this, he failed to plant a successor in 2015.
