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Plateau bye-election: PDP to drag INEC to Court

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5 years ago

October 11, 2021

By Kingsley Chukwuka

The Plateau State chapter of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), has threatened to drag the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to court

if it fails to fix a date for the conduct of bye election for Jos North and Bassa federal constituency of the State in line with the provision of the constitution and electoral act.

Mr. John Akans, the State Publicity Secretary of the opposition party while addressing newsmen in Jos also urged INEC to come out and tell Plateau people why it is yet to fix a date for the conduct of the election having lost the member representing that constituency over six months ago.

He argued that INEC has gone beyond the required time to conduct the election as done in other federal constituencies adding that PDP is doing everything possible within the ambits of the law and its competent best to salvage democracy and Plateau from the hands and shackles of the APC.

He described the just concluded local government election in the State as the worse in history while advising those declared as winners by PLASIEC not to celebrate because they were not elected by the people but rather oppointed by the executive.

Akans further said Governor Lalong and his election merchant team may just be grandstanding in a wild flight of fantasy just for psychological relief in order to give a false hope of judicial victory instead of uncertainty of where the pendulum of justice swings.