The governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, has called on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Atahiru Jega to conduct credible general elections.
The governor made the call in Jos on Friday during a Town Hall Meeting organised by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to gain the confidence of prospective voters in the forthcoming elections.
The governor commended Jega for conducting credible elections in 2011, but added that the 2015 elections were different.
According to Jang, Jega’s integrity as an unbiased umpire would further be proved in the general elections slated for March 28 and April 11.
He said it has been observed that the card reader contains 600 megabytes of data but that only four megabytes were deployed during the mock elections conducted by INEC.
This, he said made the true capacity of the machines suspect and advised that if they had challenges working optimally, Jega should not insist on using them.
Jang, PDP’s senatorial candidate for Plateau North, pledged to give the people of the senatorial district “interactive representation“ if elected.
“There will be regular town hall meetings when I am elected into the Senate. We will open a suggestion box to entertain suggestions and advice from the senatorial zone’’, he said.
He called on those who are yet to collect their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs to do so as to vote leaders of their choice.
“I heard that another batch of PVCs including my own have come, those of you who are yet to collect theirs should go and collect’’, he added.
Speaking at the town hall meeting, the PDP governorship candidate for Plateau, Sen. Gyang Pwajok, said the state would be having a very strong representation at the National Assembly with the caliber of Jang as Senator, adding that PDP candidates contesting to represent the state at the National Assembly were experienced personalities that know Nigeria in and out.
“A set of first eleven on the PDP ticket are going to the National Assembly, we have Jang, Sen. Joshua Dariye for Plateau Central and Gen. Jeremiah Useni for Plateau South.
“I am sure such a representation of three very experienced, well established personalities would definitely attract and bring back what is meant for Plateau’’, he said.
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