Group Accuses Gov. Lalong Of Manipulating Langtang North To Anarchy

Group Accuses Gov. Lalong Of Manipulating Langtang North To Anarchy

By Moses Gbande

A group operating under the aegis of Taroh Concern Youths for Justice and Good Governance has discribed the last local government election in Plateau state as the height of theft, shame and injustice of the Lalong led APC administration.

The groups at a news briefing in Jos on Wednesday, expressed dismay over the way and manner in which Plateau leaders often creat political upheavals for Langtang people.

The group said as a grassroots mobilizers coming from different backgrounds with the sole aim of empowering ordinary men and women with information to demand accountabihty from the leaders they have chosen to drive their society, is not happy with outcome of the last local government election of 10th October, 2018.

” Despite taking long time to conduct the Local government elections thus denying people at the grassroot the opportunity and democratic rights to choose their leaders, one would wonder why the Lalong administration is always choosing the ignoble path of democratic perdition.

“The Taroh Concern Youths for Justice and Good Governance recall how we massively mobilize people to come out and exercise their franchise in the last Local Government election which many have described as a democratic tape and disgrace.

” More worrying is the fact that some contestants at the elections who lost out heard their names announced as winners in Jos, the state capital. The last local government election was the height of theft, shame and injustice of the Lalong led APC administration Plateau State; history would always be unfair to Govemor Simon Bako Lalong.

“It is no news that Ubandoma Joshua Laven who contested for the chairmanship of Langtang North LGC on the platform of Peoples’ Democratic Party (PD?) and was alleged to have lost but felt that justice was not served, challenged the result of the election at the tribunal.

“He lost at the lower trial tribunal but won at the Appeal Tribunal which by law remains the final adjudicating body or apex court as regards local government elections petition in Plateau State.

“It is said that the judiciary is the last hope of the common man. However, some very recent decisions of the election petition tribunal with due respect questioned that nobility, honourability the courts are known for.

“We still believe strongly that there are men of integrity whose conscience is the highest authority in the Plateau State judiciary.

“Our kind plea is to our father, the Executive Govemor of Plateau State Rt. Hon. (Barr.) Simon Bako Lalong, a quintessential Barr. man, a grassroot emancipator and a largehearted democrat to prevail on Hon. Nanlok Amos Kparnim and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to accept the decision of the Plateau State Election Petition Appeal Tribunal which is the final adjudicating body or apex court was regards local government elections in Plateau State, delivered on l9th July 2019 which declared and returned Ubandoma Joshua Laven as the duly elected chairman of Langtang North Local Government Council by taking on the path of honour in discontinuing the certiorari proceedings instituted at the high court of justice Jos.

“This is in view of the fact that election is only a medium; political party an emblem and; politics a means to an end for the common good of all and not for personal aggrandisement.

“We salute the good people of Langtang North Local Government Council for keeping the peace and not taking the law into their hands in this difficult time”.