Plateau LG Polls: Respect Rule of Law – Ubandooman Urges Lalong

BY CHAMBERLAIN ODEY, JOS – With the declaration of Mr Ubandoman Joshua Laven by the Plateau State Elections Appeal Tribunal as winner of the October 10, 2018 Langtang North Local Government election, the Chairman-elect has charged Governor Simon Bako Lalong to obey the Tribunal’s judgment and swear him into office as duly elected Chairman of the local government council.

In an interview with newsmen in Jos, Laven said the Governor Lalong that he knows has respect for the rule of law as demonstrated by him in the same Langtang North in 2015 with the swearing in of Chief Dan Dull of the DPP as the duly elected Local Government council Chairman.

Laven also noted that if Governor Lalong could keep his promise to the people of his Local Government Area when he went to campaign for his governorship election that led him to victory in 2015, the Governor should do same on this occasion of a land mark judgment of the Elections Appeal Tribunal.

He said; “Barr. Lalong as the Father of the state is one Governor that believes in the rule of law and due process, and that was why when the outcome of the polls in 2018 didn’t go down well with some of us, he urged every one that disagrees with the results as declared by the PLASIEC to ventilate our positions at the duly constituted Elections Petition Tribunal.

He said that the masses of Lantang came out overwhelmingly to vote for him in the 2018 Local Government polls in the state, adding that now that the court has returned his bungled mandate, he will do everything humanly possible to deliver dividends of democracy to the people of Langtang North.

The declared winner also said that despite all odds, the people of his state should continue to be confident in the judiciary as the hope of the common man.

He commended Justice Arum Ashom, Chairman of the Elections Appeal Tribunal, for doing justice to his petition. 

By this Declaration, Ubandoman Joshua Laven of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is now the winner of the Langtang North Local Government Elections that were held on October 10, 2018 throughout Plateau state.

Ubandoma Joshua Laven, PDP Chairmanship candidate for Langtang North in the said elections, had challenged the declaration of APC’s candidate, Mr. Kparnim Nanloh-Amos, by the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC), as winner of the polls.