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.
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