By: Amb. Valentine Adese (JP), rises
The yet to be published voters’ list in most polling units ahead of the forthcoming Plateau State Local Government Council (LGC) elections is become an issue of public debate among residents in Jos, the capital of the state, as residents continue to visit there polling units to be certain whether, they are still legible to vote.
A cross check by this Newspaper in Jenta Adamu, (A combination of Jenta-Makari, Jenta-Adamu and Jenta-Mangoro) among most communities that form the suburb of Jos-North Local Government Area (LGA), indicates that most polling units, apart from that in St. Theresa’s Primary School, have no recently published Voter’s List.
Many of the residents in these areas, who spoke to our correspondent expressed worries over the development and delay.
They also questioned, if the election might still hold with these observed defects especially, knowing that there is a specific legal time or period of time for its publication in various polling units before the date of any slated election(s).
In the mist of this development, REALITY gathered that, some contestants for the office of the Chairman of Jos-North Local Government Council (LGC) have been in nocturnal meetings to decide whether to step down for the Chairmanship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Barr. J.k. Chris, on or before the election date.
You would recall that the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) had earlier disclosed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had refused to provide BIVAS for the Commission to enable it conduct the LGC elections.
PLASIEC had also disclosed that in the mist of INEC’s refusal, it had put in efforts and has formulated its ways and means to conduct the election, which it had authenticated in Mock elections recently conducted in some Local Government Areas.
With less than Four (4) days to the slated elections, residents wait, as politicians continue to plan.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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