Plateau APC group express support for Wokdung ahead of council election

By Golok Nanmwa ,Jos

Concern Elders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kanam Local Government Area of Plateau state have called for sanction of top members of the party in Kanam who castigated Governor Simon Lalong for refusing to endorsed an illegal candidate, Mohammed Barau as APC candidate for the forth coming Local Government Elections in the state.

Spokesman of the group, Comrade Musa Isa Musawa, while addressing Journalists in Jos on Monday said Mohammed Barau was not screen and did not participated in the party primaries which Hon. Abbas Adamu Wokdung emerged as APC flag bearer for the Local Government Area.

Isa explained that the party had refused to issue a certificate of return to Hon. Wokdung which he  proceeded to court to seek redress and judgement was ruled in his favour.

“The Uncivilised, uncultured and unsavory language used on the Governor, the candidate and all the loyalists of he Party is embarrassing. APC is well known to be people oriented, disciplined and all inclusive. It is therefore, strange that whether youth wing, stakeholders or any form of nomenclature could go to the press and unleash insults on elders and constituted authority.

“We are not surprised that the said group is deafening to leave the party or engage in anti-party activities particularly against the person of the Governor and APC Local Government Chairmanship candidate in the future elections. It is a known fact that most of them have dual localities and only joined the APC when elections had already been won.”

Comrade Isa noted that six aspirants indicated interest to contest the election and only five aspirants were screen and satisfied for the election but the state Chairman of the Party, Hon. Latep Dabang had gave order that Mohammed Barau should be admitted into the contest without screening.

“From the foregoing and in conformity with the Electoral Guidelines of he APC, Mohammed Barau was not qualified to stand for primary election in the first place.

“When voting was to commence, a new aspirant, Mohammed Barau who was not in the contest at Dengi was strangely brought in as a substitute to Idris Musa Suleiman who had disappeared from the scene of the election.

“There was serious contention that nearly marred he election but which the committee admitted that the party chairman at the state level gave order that the strange substitute be admitted into the exercise that held on the 18 November, 2017.”

A separate group had addressed a press conference accusing Governor Simon Lalong of not endorsing Mohammed Barau after the judgement that was in favour of Hon. Abbas Wokdung and threatened to withdraw their support for Governor Simon Lalong in 2019.

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Plateau APC group express support for Wokdung ahead of council election