Seriki Adinoyi in Jos Following the irregularities that characterised last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections across the nation, a former governor of Plateau State, Senator Jonah Jang, has admonished the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to redeem its image from the generally poor perception Nigerians hold about the commission by striving to conduct a credible governorship polls by next Saturday.
In a statement he signed, Jang also asked all election stakeholders, including INEC and security agencies, to do what is necessary to avoid a repeat of the shortcomings of the presidential and National Assembly polls.He pointed out that INEC, in particular, should recognise that the destiny of the over 200 million Nigerians has been entrusted to them and that setting the nation on fire wilfully, either by omission or commission, is unpatriotic, and only posterity will judge.
The former governor also warned that a vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 11 governorship and state House of Assembly elections will be a subscription to further hardship and neglect suffered by Plateau people of the state in the past eight years.
He recalled that “the last eight years brought us untold hardship; we were almost robbed of our identity. Forces alien to us took control and nearly destroyed everything we stood for, all in an attempt to curry personal favour from the government at the centre; we cannot afford to endure another eight years of total misrule; we must resist those who attempt to coerce our mind into believing that we are second class people.
