Jang: Merger will Not Save APC’s Imminent Failure in Plateau
Seriki Adinoyi Plateau State Governor, Jonah David Jang, has dismissed the alleged merger between the All Progressives Congress (APC), Labour Party (LP) and Mega Party in the state, vowing that their merger will not save the APC from imminent failure in the next Saturday gubernatorial election.
In a statement signed by his Executive Assistant, Mr. Clinton Garuba, Jang also dismissed “the spurious allegations made by APC over the governorship election,” describing it as a grand strategy by “the drowning party to cause distraction.”
The governor noted that the last minute cross-carpeting of the governorship candidates of the LP and Mega Party, Bagudu Hirse and Mrs. Elizabeth Yirse respectively, were signs of a people and groups that are already losing grasp of the support of the people.
He said: “The APC as a party has not told the Plateau people what it has in stock for them; they have only struggled to whip up sentiments built on sectionalism, divisiveness and related issues with a view to winning sympathy.
“As a drowning party filled with PDP’s yesterday men whose pursuit of selfish and personal interest could not find accommodation in the mainstream PDP, it is only a matter of time before their greed manifest.
“The party is already crying foul and calling for the removal of an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) with whom they saw nothing wrong, when the APC got over 400 votes in the state (the first ever by an opposition) but have turned around to seek his removal seeing that defeat stares them in the face.
“It is not strange to hear the APC and its mercenaries play the same tune of the INEC REC being compromised by the PDP because these same people began to fight him on assumption of duty to the state. The APC cannot be an arbiter in matter that affects it neither can it be the player and referee at the same time. INEC knows how to do what it is empowered to do by the constitution and to begin to seek to play the role of INEC is in clear contravention of the rules of the game. Not surprising though, INEC must take the fall for the failure of the APC in the governorship election this weekend.