By Pwanagba Agabus, Jos
A group, under the aegis, Plateau State Southern Youths, has petitioned former Governor Simon Lalong, who is the current Minister of Labour and Employmen, over what they dubbed as gross misconduct of withholding two political positions mewmt for the State.
The group argued that since the jungle justice delivered by Appeal Court that sacked Sen. Napoleon Bali, Plateau Southern Senatorial zone lost its voice in the Red Chamber of the National Assembly.
The Group has asked the Code of Conduct Bureau to sanction Lalong for allegedly holding two political positions as against whqt they dubbed as the ethical practice.
Recall that the former Governor Lalong was appointed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Minister of Labour and Employment after he was defeated by AVM Napoleon Bali on 25th February, 2023 during general election.
However, dissatisfied with the outcome of the election, Lalong approached the tribunal to nullified the victory of Sen. AVM Napoleon Bali.
Also recall that, AVM Napoleon defeated Lalong with a gap of 57,145 votes and emerged as lawful winner of the Senatorial zone, yet, former governor Lalong, went to court and convinced the Appeal Court to declare him winner.
The group called on President Bola Tinubu to relieve former governor Lalong of his ministerial poat and appoint any other Plateau son or daughter as his replacement.
The youths further expressed displeasure over what they dubbed former Lalong’s poor performance during his eight years as governor of the state especially in his senatorial zone of Plateau-South.
“The past eight years of governor Lalong features incompetency and insecurity without any positive development.
“We never felt any positive impact of Lalong in his eight years as governor and now we don’t expect anything different”.
The group led by Comrade Adams Yerling says, “we are fed up with the Nigerian Judiciary because there is no justice in recent happenings in Nigeria especially on 2023 election matters.
“It is quite surprisingly that a collective decision of millions citizens were left in the hands of 3-man panel to decide.
“It is irrational for 3 man panel to decide the faith of millions citizens,” they said.
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