Gov. Lalong Is Afraid of Defeat, That Is Why He Has Refused To Hold Local Government Elections –Damishi Sango

Yakubu Busari

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State, Damishi T. Sango has alleged that his party will humiliate Governor Simon Bako Lalong of the All Progressive Congress (APC) who is afraid of conducting the Local Government Election in the state.

Sango stated this in an interview with journalists at the party headquarters in Jos.

He pointed out that Governor Lalong is afraid of defeat fear at the local government election hence his decision for not holding the exercise in the state since he assumed power.

He also accused the state governor of bridging constitutional provision over what he called ‘seeming failure and fear of being disgraced by the electorates who are determined to change him in 2019’, he stated .

Sango who was a former Minister of Sports maintained that the extension of tenure of the current LGA caretaker committee chairmen in the state for third time simply shows the flagrant disregard of the same constitution that brought him to the corridors of power.

He claimed that Plateau State is never an APC state and that it was the waves of change in the country then that paved way for the party in the state.

The former minister therefore boasted that PDP will deliver the state any time there will be election in the 17 local government areas.

He expressed optimism that PDP is set to demonstrate its political capability in winning all the 17 local governments if Lalong conduct the exercise without rigging.

According to the PDP chairman, he called on anti-Graft agencies to focus its searchlights in the state because the “increasing level of corrupt practices by government officials.

He opined that all the current caretakers at the local governments should seriously be investigated to ascertain how they rule.