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PDP alleges plot by Gov Lalong to
sack civil servants who did not support APC during the LG polls.
By Lovins Yakubu
October 26, 2018
The Plateau
state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the
Governor of Plateau state Rt. Hon Simon Bako Lalong has issued a directive to
punish all civil servants suspected not to have given complete support to the
ruling All Progressive Congress (APC)during the October10, Local Government
Election.
A statement
signed by the state Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Hon. John Akans and a copy
made available to African Drum
observed that Lalong’s justification for this line of action was that if civil
servants had not supported the PDP, the APC wouldn’t have experienced the
complete trouncing it did when the PDP overwhelmingly swept the polls across
the state.
According to
the statement, “We are reliably informed that APC officials across the
seventeen (17) local governments are compiling lists of the suspected civil servants
to either post them out of their present location or retire them from service
prematurely.
“The PDP
totally condemns this directive by the APC as a desperately ruthless and
pitiless method of suppressing the rights of workers and indeed Plateau people
to freely exercise their right to free association.
This move
also reveals clearly that the APC has lost ground with even the civil service
which was previously much-touted as the governor's solid support base.
“The
governor is being confronted daily by the flood of rejection of his mis-governance.
The result
of the LGA election is living proof that Plateau people have sent an
unequivocal and daring message to Lalong and the APC that it is: TIME UP!”
The
statement added that as the Lalong administration continues to lose the
goodwill of the people, it was also becoming more vindictive and lashing out at
perceived enemies stressing that part of this action was when months ago, the government
ordered serving directors and cashiers of the seventeen local government areas
to resign their positions and hand over to their deputies simply because they
had worked under the PDP government. The PDP added that up to this moment, some
civil servants are prohibited from coming to office.
“We call on Governor
Lalong to disengage from his penchant for unnecessarily getting distracted and
instead at least for once be seen to be concentrating on performing the
responsibilities of his office by protecting the lives and properties of our
people. He should be proactive in defending the people he governs within his
remaining seven months in office, rather than victimizing and dividing the
people of the state along ethnic and religious lines.”
The party
hoped too that Gov Lalong learn some lessons about working
with his people to defend the dignity of the Plateau person rather than
hob-nobbing with the President as if he were some executive assistant in the
presidency.
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