The youth wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau State has urged President Bola Tinubu to intervene in the crisis rocking the state House of Assembly.

The group also called for action regarding the replacement of Senator Simon Bako Lalong, who resigned as the Minister of Labour.

In a press statement signed by their coordinator in Jos, Hon. Gwalson Mutshak, the youths demanded the prompt swearing-in of APC House of Assembly members.

Gwakson said: “For the first time in the political history of this country, a sitting governor could call the bluff of an important institution like the judiciary without sanction from any quarters. It is only in Plateau State that the governor openly disrespected the electoral process and the Constitution by refusing to accept the verdict of the election petition tribunal. Instead, the governor formulated his conditions for executing the decision of the Election Petition Tribunal.

A case in point is the situation where the governor in concert with the Speaker, who incidentally is from a minority party, made it mandatory that for the 16 APC members to be sworn- in, they must first of all, write an undated letter of resignation with an affidavit stating that the decision to do was voluntary.

“This action is not only autocratic, unheard off, but defied all sense of responsibility, democratic norms and political decency from a person who himself, is a product of democracy as well as the rule of law”

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The statement also noted: “As things stand out now, 6 members of the APC who have refused to be coarse into that unwholesome condition of signing their resignations letters as a precondition for their swearing-in, are still been denied and refused to be sworn in by the speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly. Unfortunately, the action of the governor has deprived six constituencies of voices in the legislature for nearly seven months since they won their cases at the election Petition tribunals.

This misuse of power and despicable attitude of the governor has been creating tension and anxiety, to the extent that the patience of most especially, people of the 6 affected constituencies and that of the APC supporters are fast running out, coupled with the kind of provocative innuendoes perpetrated by the Plateau State government.

Regrettably the APC which holds the ace at the centre has been living politically at the mercy of the PDP to the extent that the APC supporters are denied even palliatives and other forms of social interventions sent to the State by the Federal government. This untoward attitude of the Plateau State government has painfully resonated with the APC and made them look like political orphans in the Country”

The youths also appealed to Tinubu to fill the vacancy left in the federal Ministry of Labour due to the resignation of Senator Simon Bako Lalong.

The statement added: “Permit to also use this opportunity to appeal to Mr President to appoint a Minister from Plateau State. This is to also allow us to have representation at the Federal Executive Council. Mr President should save us from further embarrassment and ridicule by the PDP supporters who constantly delight in making caricatures of us for aligning with the Muslim-Muslim ticket.”
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