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POSTPONEMENT
OF LG POLLS IN PLATEAU STATE CALLS FOR SERIOUS CONCERN – I.M.P.A.C.T
BY:
LOVINS YAKUBU
7th
February, 2018
The initiative for
Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance (I.M.P.A.C.T) a non-governmental
organization based in Jos has described as unfortunate the recent postponement
of Local Government Elections in Plateau State by the Plateau State Independent
Electoral Commission (PLASIEC
In a statement signed
by its Secretary-General Isaac Wadak, the organization further described
PLASIEC’s decision as rape on democracy adding that it was quite unfortunate
that the third tier of government in the State is the most abused because it is
either legally elected structures at that level are dissolved arbitrarily and
caretaker committees put in place or elections are not held or postponed.
I.M.P.A.C.T also took
with pinch of salt, insecurity being the reason advanced by PLASIEC for the
postponement stressing that only recently, on 12th January, 2018 to
be précised, Governor Simon Bako Lalong assured President Muhammadu Buhari that
peace has been restored in the state. According
to the statement; it therefore, smacks of insincerity and double speaks to use
security as reason to postpone the election.
The statement called
on PLASIEC to do the needful by working out modalities and quickly conducted
council polls to ensure the restoration of democracy at that level. It also
called on PLASIEC to come clean on the faith of candidates who have committed
huge amount of money and other resources into electioneering process.
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