Former Nigerian Vice president, Mr. Atiku Abubakar, ex-Minister of Information and Orientation Prof. Jerry Gana and some other key politicians, Sunday, paid solidarity visits to the Senator representing Plateau North in Nigeria’s National Assembly, Mr. Jonah Jang, in prison.
Their visits came about five days after Justice Daniel Longji of the Plateau State High Court in Jos ordered Jang to be remanded in the prison custody after he was arraigned by Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on a 12-count charge of alleged misappropriation of N6.3 billion .
Those who also visited Jang in prison included Chief Chris Giwa and other prominent members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his colleagues in the National Assembly.
It was gathered that most of the politicians during their visits, donated money to the prison for the welfare of the inmates.
During the interdenominational church service held on Sunday, Jang was said to have prayed and preached to the congregation which had in attendance almost all the commissioners who served in his cabinet.
He was said to have paid the backlog of electricity bills and settled fines for over 50 inmates.
Jang, a serving Nigerian senator, allegedly embezzled special funds released to the state by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), two months to the end of his tenure as governor in 2015.
He was specifically alleged to have pocketed N2billion released by the CBN for disbursement to small and medium scale enterprises in the state under the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Funds, MSMEDF, just a month before the expiration of his tenure in April 2015.