The Senator representing Plateau South in the National Assembly and the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, Jeremiah Useni has described the results of the local government polls in the state as a scam.

He said the result as announced by the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) was a dangerous plot by the state governor, Simon Lalong to worsen the already precarious situation in the state.

“The Peoples Democratic Party monitored the conduct and results of the elections across the thirteen Local Government Areas where elections were conducted and reports indicated that elections were peacefully conducted at the polling units where results showed that the PDP worn in all the 13 LGAs. 

“Consequently, PLASIEC being on the pay roll of Governor Simon Lalong disappeared into the air while electorates were anxiously waiting for the announcement of results on their various units and only for PLASIEC to announce the names of APC candidates who had already been sworn in at midnight on the same day.

“From the foregoing, it is clear that Governor Lalong and the ruling APC in the state, out of their desperation to hold on to power, even when it is clear that they have lost same, are hell bent on plunging the state into yet another needless political crisis.

“To say the election was rigged would be to be reiterating the obvious, never on the Plateau has election been this manipulated, pre-arranged, doctored, fixed, pre-determined, altered, falsified and skewed”, Useni lamented.

“Security men at the just concluded LG elections are also culpable of this deceit as they joined our party agents in keeping vigil at the various LGAs, only for the aforementioned fictitious results to be announced at the PLASIEC office in Jos without collation and the security agencies kept mute.

 

While noting that the present administration has continued to give citizens of the state reasons not to vote them back, the senator called on his supporters to remain calm and steadfast until 2019 when they would vote the APC out.

 

“I hereby call on my supporters to remain calm, steadfast and resolute in conducting their affairs as we approach 2019 elections where I am optimistic and hopeful that Plateau citizens will speak to the incompetent APC government with their votes.

“I also appeal to Governor Lalong to allow good conscience to prevail at this solemn moment in the state and allow the will of the people, as spoken through the ballot, to prevail,” he added.