The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Plateau State on
Tuesday accused the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission
(PLASIEC) of concluding plans to doctor and submit false Local
Government results sheets to the LG Election Tribunal sitting in Jos.
The party through its State Deputy Chairman, Hon. Amos Gombi Goyol,
while addressing journalists at its State Secretariat Jos, alleged that
PLASIEC was working hard on how to circumvent the Law.
Goyol said, “We are worried that even while we are challenging the
irregularities of the Local Government Election held on October 10,
2018, at the Tribunals, which is a legal means, PLASIEC is still very
busy working on ways to circumvent the law.
“We have it on good authority that PLASIEC is attempting to perfect
its false and doctored results sheets by offering between five-to-ten
thousand naira each to Presiding officers and party agents who took part
in the election for their signatures to authenticate these clearly fake
documents.”
Goyol said the desperation in PLASIEC was boundless as it tries to
make the APC Government in the state look good and acceptable.
According to him, no matter what PLASIEC does now it can never change
the sound and message of the Plateau people on the LG Elections held in
the state.
“As far as the PDP is concerned, the real results of the LG elections
are the clearest and loudest referendum yet on the Lalong
administration which the people have rejected him.”
The party also appealed to the Local Government Election Tribunal for
additional panels to handle overwhelming number of petitions within the
time frame legally allowed otherwise most of the cases would lapse by
effluxion.
“The PDP as the petitioner applied to the honourable Chief Judge of
Plateau through in a letter dated December 3, 2018 for additional panels
to be constituted to compliment.”
Reacting to the allegations, the Senior Special Assistant on Media
and Publicity to the Governor Simon Lalong, Mark Longyen, said the
falsehood been spread by PDP should be dismissed .
Longyen said, “PDP is merely playing to the gallery and engaging in
diversionary tactics to misinform and mislead the public. They are the
ones planning to buy the PVCs for reasons best known to them. I
challenge them to publish documentary evidence to prove their
allegations or simply shut up.
“The antics of the PDP are well known. Wild, speculations and brazen
falsehood constitute their stock-in-trade and it is not surprising,
especially as we are in the season of electoral campaigns,” he
maintained.
According to him, Governor Lalong’s second term is “already a done
deal”, so their allegation of a “crumbling administration” is a “figment
of their imagination”.
The Governor’s aide advised the PDP to brace up for a humiliating defeat in the forthcoming governorship election.