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Plateau LG Polls: Lalong is hell bent
on causing another crisis-PDP
By Dickson Gupiya
October 11, 2018
it is clear
that Governor Lalong and the ruling APC in the State, out of their desperation
to hold on to power, even when it is clear that they have lost same, are hell
bent on plunging the State into yet another needless political crisis.
Hon D T
Sango, the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Plateau state chapter
made this statement on Thursday while addressing the press in reaction to PLASIEC’s
announcement of winners of the local government elections that was conducted
yesterday in 13 local governments out of the 17.
According to
the Chairman, “I have invited you today to address you on the just concluded
elections held in 13 Local Government Areas of the State. I desire that you alert the people of the
State on the dangerous plot by Governor Lalong to worsen the already precarious
situation in the State”
Sango said
that the PDP received and monitored results across the thirteen Local
Government Areas where elections were conducted and that reports monitored
across the State indicated that elections were peacefully conducted at the
polling units where results were transmitted to the Wards for collation, but up
till the moment of the press briefing, the Commission was yet to announce the
result. He stated that while anxious voters were waiting at the collation
centres to get PLASIEC’s verdicts on their free franchise, the electoral
officers and returning officers have disappeared into the thin air, leaving
room for avoidable anxiety
“Meantime,
we have it on good authority that PLASIEC has just announced the names of the
so-called winners of the election, and that Governor Lalong is planning to
swear in the said winners later in the day, while results have not been
announced.
“ I spoke to
the Commissioner of Police, Plateau State Command and the State Director of
Security Services a short while ago intimating them on the present sad “development,
and made it clear to them that Governor Lalong should be held responsible for
any breach of peace in the State should he and his cohorts continue on the
dangerous path they have chosen to tread.
“At this
point, I wish to appeal to Governor Lalong to allow good conscience to prevail
at this solemn moment in the State, and allow the will of the people, as spoken
through the ballot, to prevail. Already four Local Government Areas where
excluded from the elections owing to insecurity. I now asked, can we afford to
worsen the already fragile security situation in the State?
"As a
responsible political party we have all along chosen the path of peace even in
the face of grave provocation. I invite all well-meaning people of Plateau
State to reject this desperation by Governor Lalong to subvert the people’s
will, which has further exposed the height of his impunity and disregard for
peace, unity and good governance of Plateau” sango said.
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