PLATEAU: APC, OTHER OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES REMAIN SILENT AS PDP MOVES TO ANNUL 9TH OCTOBER 2021, LG ELECTIONS

By: Amb. Valentine Adese (JP),

The chapters of Political Parties in Plateau State which contested in the 9^th October 2024, Local Government Council (LGC) Elections across the 17 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Plateau State, have remained silent over the move by the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s moves to annul the outcome of the election.

You would recall that REALITY had reported that, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Plateau State chapter has dragged the Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang (Esq), the Attorney-General of the State, and the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) to Court challenging the 2021 Local Government elections held on 9^th October 2021.

Other Defendants on the face of the filed processes are the Attorney-General of the State and the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC).

REALITY gathered that even the All Progressives Congress (APC), which is the major beneficiary of the 9^th October Local Government elections has remained silent on the recent moves of the PDP to annul the outcome of the election.

The suit filed by way of Originating Summons by the PDP chapter in Plateau State, is brought pursuant to Order 5 Rule 4 of the Plateau State High Court (Civil Procedure Rules 2020 and Section 6(6), 1, 17 (2,a), 40 and 42 (1, a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).

The chapter wants the Court, if the questions for determination in the suit are in its favour, to:

1.      Declare that the disqualification and or rejection of the names of Candidates of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), submitted to the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC), for the 9^th October 2021 Local Government elections in Plateau State is unlawful, unconstitutional, discriminatory, null and void, and,

2.       An Order annulling the entire Local Government election conducted by the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) across the Local Government Areas in Plateau State on 9^th October 2021.

3.      TO BE CONTINUED…