We Reject Gov Lolang Imposed Candidates For 2023 Election– Plateau Electorates Cry Out

Political heavyweights and the electorates are shouting foul over recent maneuvers, and alleging that the state Governor, Simom BakoLalong and his hatchet men have hijacked the All Progressives Congress (APC) party machinery in the state and imposed candidates for the 2023 forthcoming general elections.

“If the Governor has forgotten the footprints of history so soon, let him be reminded that, he got into Government House Rayfield, through protest votes. Senator Jonah Jang, the immediate past governor of the state made the same grievous mistake by attempting to impose his cousin in Government House, Rayfield. He failed woefully”.

A resident in Jos, the state capital said, ‘the people of Plateau state still remember vividly when Lalong laid blames on the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), for corruption and nepotism. Development parameters in Plateau indicate that he has performed worse than the PDP. The candid advised is that he should brace up to meet the yearnings of the Plateau people through positive infrastructural development, rather than imposing a former  Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. NentaweYilwtda Goshe, a late entrant, on the people as Plateau state APC candidate for 2023 guber election. Another concern is that while the people of Plateau feel that his mentor, former Governor of the state, Senator Joshua Dariye should be left off the hook, he keeps mum.

It is in view of these unfortunate developments that, Plateau state electorates appeal to the All Progressives Congress National Secretariat, to dispassionately look into the political misadventure of Governor Simon Lalong and intervene to correct this gross violation of the Electoral Act, 2022. This is the only away that will help the APC to avoid the repeat of the Zamfara state episode of 2019. “The people of Plateau state want a peoples Governor, not an imposed stooge.