Former governor of Plateau State and Senator representing Plateau South in the National Assembly, Simon Lalong, has lamented that seven months after he resigned as a minister, Plateau State has no replacement in the Federal Executive Council, FEC.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶
Lalong, who is the leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Plateau State, spoke yesterday at the party’s stakeholders’ meeting held at the Party Secretariat in Jos, the State capital.
He also called on the members of the state House of Assembly to immediately swear in the remaining six APC members, who are yet to be sworn in after the Appeal court returned them as winners.
of the 2023 House of Assembly election.
According to him, “I thank God for this great gathering. We are here because we love the Party. We are not a party of injustice. When we received notice that they were going to prepare for the local government election as usual, they wanted to do it, as we were doing when we were in government.
“To think that there was no APC on the Plateau. We saw our people moving back to their various wards and fighting to occupy these offices at the ward and the chairmanship levels. What will keep us is the local government election.
“We must remain steadfast in our Party to support our President. If he fails today, we have failed. But if he succeeds, we have succeeded. All of us are concerned that it is not fair that the Plateau State will remain for seven months without a Minister.