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APC Elders Advisory Council says Lalong
remains the best option for Plateau, chides PDP Chairman, Sango for reckless
statements.
By Lovins Yakubu
March 07, 2019
The
elders’ Advisory Council of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) said
Governor Simon Lalong remains the most credible and widely acceptable man for
the Plateau Project among all the other contestants for the seat. According to
the Council, Lalong, within the three and half years he has been the Governor,
has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt his love and commitment towards a
united and prosperous Plateau, as against the divisive acts of his predecessor.
The
Elders made their position known in Jos today during a press briefing by its
Chairman, JM Din on the forth coming election in Plateau State.
According
to Din, “as we go into this Saturday’s election, we want to full endorse the
candidature of His Excellency, The Executive Governor of Plateau State, Rt.
Hon. Simon Bako Lalong who remains the most credible and widely acceptable man
for the Plateau Project among all the other contestants for the seat. Within
the three and half years he has been the Governor, he has demonstrated beyond
reasonable doubt his love and commitment towards a united and prosperous
Plateau, as against the divisive acts of his predecessor”.
The
Council also noted with great dismay what it called infantile and reckless
behavior of the leadership of the PDP in Plateau State under the chairmanship
of Damishi Sango who it said chooses every available opportunity to insult and
disrespect the Governor and played on the sensibilities of the peace loving
people of Plateau State.
According to
the Council, “His usual body language of calling for violence when elections do
not go the way of the PDP in Plateau State is highly condemnable and
unacceptable to us. His antics in trying to act as an alternative electoral
umpire as he did in the last elections are a case in point.
"His
premeditated statements with regards to this Saturday’s gubernatorial and house
of assembly elections are clear indications that the PDP is out to foment
trouble if the elections do not go its way”.
Consequently,
the elders’ council called on security agents to be vigilant and ensure
peaceful, credible, free and fair elections and put an eagle eye on the opposition
party in the state which the Council said is bent on winning at all cost.
The
Council further observed with dismay vote-buying allegedly by the opposition which
it said it witnessed in the last elections. “We call on our agents and
supporters to be watchful to ensure that their votes really count on Saturday.
Going by the last elections’ experience where many voters were disenfranchised
as a result of the slowness and malfunctioning of card readers and late arrival
of election materials, we call on INEC to put all strategies in place to ensure
a hitch free exercise”.
The
APC Elders Advisory Council also condemned the clandestine activities of some
Church denominations which it said deliberately went all out to paint the APC
black by calling it all sorts of names. “While we cannot behave like them, we
want them to understand very clearly that the division they have caused in the
Church is going to consume them sooner than later” said the Council.
It
called on the electorates to come out en-mass and vote Governor Lalong whom it
described as amiable, humbly and promise-keeping Governor who has left no one
in doubt of his commitment to totally rescue Plateau State from the hands of
those the council further described as self-seeking individuals who do not mean
the state and its people well.
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