By Our Reporter

Hon. Ibrahim Hamza, former Public Relations Officer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nasarawa State, has sharply criticized recent comments by Hon. Francis Orogu regarding “true natives” of the state, describing it as a return to primitive identity politics.

In a strongly worded statement, Hamza Described Orogu’s remarks which appeared in some online platforms titled: “Enough is Enough: PDP Leader Demands Nasarawa Governor, Must Be A True Native” as divisive and out of touch with the political maturity Nasarawa has achieved since the advent of the Fourth Republic.

Hamza noted that Nasarawa has never suffered from a crisis of nativeness, stressing that every civilian governor since 1999, regardless of tribe, religion, or zone, has been a legitimate son of the state. He questioned who among the past governors was not a true native and who governed the state with a borrowed identity or imported ancestry.

Hamza argued that if Orogu cannot name a single governor who was not a bona fide native of the state, then his comments lack any rational basis and only serve to inflame unnecessary divisions.

“Orogu and his party, the PDP, have nothing meaningful to offer the people of Nasarawa State; hence their resort to the politics of ethnicity. They have no programme or master plan capable of improving the living standard of the people beyond what is currently being achieved under the APC. I want to tell Orogu and those like him that the PDP cannot go anywhere with this kind of outdated politics.”  Hon. Hamza further stressed.

He emphasized that Nasarawa’s real challenges has nothing to do with ethnicity or religion.
According to him, both the present and past governors in the state have governed with competence and Engr. Sule is doing his best on equity, sincerity, and development-focused leadership style.

Hamza who is also the Karfen Dawaki of Lafian bare bare also condemned any suggestion that some citizens of Nasarawa people born, raised, and contributing to the state, are somehow less legitimate than others, saying any ethnic sentiments is an insults the very people Orogu claims to defend.

He pointed out  that the state has matured into a modern, multi-ethnic entity that should not be dragged backward by exclusionary politics. Hamza added that what the people need in 2027, and always, is a capable leader who can add to governor Sule’s governance strategy, not a genealogist-in-chief.

He concluded by calling for a politics centered on progress, unity, and development rather than tribal or provincial sentiments, insisting that Nasarawa deserves progress, not primitive politics.