The Chairman of the Action Democratic Party in Plateau State, Ambassador Nanyah Andrew Daman, has urged the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to as a matter of urgency call on the Plateau State Governor, Simon Bako Lalong, to order before he plunges the State into pandemonium and full blown crisis again due to crass impunity, imposition and total disregard for Constitutionalism by selecting management committee in the 17 LGCs of the State instead of conducting LGC elections like civilized governors and states.
Speaking to select media operatives at the Plateau State ADP secretariat in Jos, Daman frowned at the number of illegalities Lalong has enmeshed himself in since assumption of office.
He listed them to include flagrant abuse of office as a lawyer and a former legislator; dissolution of elected LGC Chairman, Vice Chairman, Councillors and their appointees; the intentional and wicked refusal to pay the 98 Bokkos LGC staff their 26 months salary arrears despite biometric clearance and persistent appeal by elders and stakeholders of the state; refusing and illegally diverting all LGC bailout funds; encouraging nepotism and lopsidedness in appointments and awards of contracts to government officials, friends, in-laws, relatives and and cronies; meddling in the affairs of the Plateau State House of Assembly and the Judiciary by conniving with judicial staff to delay and inpede justice; and showing favouritism to one ethnic group in Jos North LGC over and above other indigenous tribes amongst others.
The ADP called on Osinbajo to intervene in the issues of willful abuse of office by the Governor Lalong administration before it snowballs into major crisis that will engulf the whole country because Plateau State is the umbilical cord that holds Nigeria together in view of the widespread agitation for restructuring of the nation.
The ADP wants the Governor to quickly sign the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission Bill into law and equally conduct the LGC elections now and not the selection of Transition Management Committee or the Federal Ministry of Finance should stop the release of any funds to Plateau State until duly elected council officials are in place.
The ADP said the continued disobedience of the Supreme Court judgement against appointment of caretaker chairmen is provocative, illegal and uncivilized.
On the element of surprise the All Progressives Congress Government of Plateau State is employing by refusing to publicize the date for the conduct of the elections, Daman said the APC can give a week’s notice if it wishes as the ADP is fully prepared for the elections and will coast home to victory with nothing less than 10 LGCs and about 120 councillors if they agree to conduct the elections.
As a youth driven political party, the ADP said it believes in internal democracy and good governance that is all inclusive, hence the use of option A4 for primary elections, where only the most popular candidate wins and not the rigging the APC is known for.
Daman said: “The ADP believes in party supremacy and party discipline.”
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