The Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,(PDP) in the just concluded General Elections in Nigeria,Amb.Yohanna Golkuna Gotom has called on the President of the Senate to embark on a thorough investigation into the intricacies surrounding the Plateau Central Senatorial election and stop making, Hon. Diket Plang a member of any committee.
Gotom lambasted the current members made up of 108 as he would be the only member to make up the 109 people called him, “Digital Senator G.Y Gotom” a pragmatic leader with a vision to attract development to the people of the central zone.
He accused Diket Plang of abandoning the people of the zone over desperation and ambition to stay in the Red Chamber of the National Assembly where he practically abandoned the Petition Challenging his emergence as Senator Representing Plateau Central district.
According to him, Plang has fragrantly refused to appear at the election tribunal sitting in Plateau state capital since the panel commenced hearing on his petition months ago.
He made this disclosure in an interview with the media men at the end of the Pre-hearing session in Jos, on his hope in the election tribunal sitting at the premises of the state High Court in Jos.
Gotom is the first Petitioner Challenging INEC as the 1st Respondent in the matter and Senator Diket Plang , 2nd Respondent, and his emergence as the winner of the general election conducted by the 1st Respondent INEC on controversial circumstances.
He said it’s obvious that the 2nd Respondent Senator Diket Plang has abandoned the Petitioner against him Challenging his emergence as the winner of the Senatorial Election in the Plateau Central senatorial seat.
Gotom said the Senator-elect is afraid of coming to court because he knew that what happened during the senatorial voting exercise was a charade conducted by INEC to twist the results in favour of the unpopular candidate.
He said as a lawmaker you don’t boycott the court process, you can see One, Two, three, and four times, I have been in court personally ., Without delegating any person.
Gotom stressed that as a business morgue, he has other serious engagements to do, if there is somebody to stay away from the court proceedings, I should be busier than the 2nd Respondent because I have a lot of engagements but for Diket Plang , he has lost hope that is why he is not always around at the tribunal sittings.
He called on the Senate president Honorable Goodwill Akpabio to investigate the intricacies surrounding the Plateau Central Senatorial election and stop making Diket a member of any committee because the members are currently made up of 108 as the only member to make up figure to 109 is him AKA “Digital Senator G.Y Gotom”.
He rejected the committee attributed to Diket Plang ,” Productivity which has never been mentioned since the enthronement of democracy in 1999. If we talk of committee employment, labour, Oil and gas, business, and ethics, these are regular committee positions.
He condemned that the interest to create an inexistent Senate committee is unwelcome and that can be done only on social media in Nigeria or probably from Facebook.
Youanna Gotom disclosed that what prompted him to contest for the position of the senatorial seat was aimed at providing good governance, when you have the right people in place, you should expect good governance across the length and breadth of central zone.
“I am an accountant having worked for Nineteen years in the private sector,I discovered the deficit in governance in my Constituency at the Plateau Central , and the people decided that they need a digital Senator with a suffocated blueprint in high-tech should come on board with health care development, technology, education, effective legislation, computation, commercialization of business environment and human capital development.
He further adds that when this comes to play, when you have a sound system.
On the current crisis in Mangu LG of plateau state, he said you can never hear of a crisis in UK, United States of America, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai of yesterday.
He used the opportunity to call on all sundry to go back to the drawing board to transform the dividends of democracy to Plateau Central people so that in the end, democracy will strive and citizens would reap the benefit.
He applauded the recent Inauguration of the plateau state executive Council by Governor Caleb Mutfwang.
I have the opportunity to look at the credentials of the commissioners, you could see businessmen, technocrats of timbers, and calibers who are really qualified to mount such positions.
You cannot pinpoint one out of all the commissioners to say that one of them is not qualified, they are truly qualified and they are performing.
Governor Caleb Mutfwang is truly set for governance on the Plateau
