Nigeria: Shagaya, Useni in Hot Race for Senate Seat

24 March 2015

Jos — Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Gen. Jeremiah Useni, and former minister of internal affairs, General John Shagaya, are poised to slug it out for the Plateau South Senatorial seat on Saturday.

Lieutenant General Jeremiah Useni (rtd) was a chieftain of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and later left for the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) before his recent defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he is currently gunning to represent Plateau South in the Senate.

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