Plateau State government yesterday said the process for the selection of commissioners was in progress and will be completed as soon as Governor Simon Bako Lalong consents and presents the names to the House of Assembly.

A statement issued by the governor’s Director of Press and Public Affairs, Samuel Emmanuel Nanle, and made available to newsmen yesterday, said Lalong and the All Progressives Congress (APC) had completed the processes leading to the submission of names for the position of commissioners from her participatory and people-oriented approach which began from the ward to the local government levels.

The statement was responding to a statement credited to Mike Dachom, the Organizing Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State who said the non-appointment of commissioners was a sign of lack of focused leadership by the APC administration in the state.

However, Lalong yesterday described Dachom’s comment as regrettable, adding that “people who do not understand the workings of democracy can openly brandish their ignorance of the fact that democracy is process driven and for it to be participatory, all critical stake-holders must be carried along.”

He said the 8th House of Assembly, which was inaugurated on the 10th of June, 2015, had just returned from a one week legislative retreat and was settling down to consider the state budget which the last PDP administration in the state could not pass before it exited office.

He said the payments of three months arrears of salary out of the eight months inherited from the PDP government and the clear respect for the rule of law which was seen in the swearing-in of Chief Dan Dul as chairman of Langtang North, as well as the resumption of work by Civil Servants from the strike action, are signs that the Lalong administration was on the right track.

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PLSG responds to PDP’s accusation of being unfocussed – set to name commissioners soon