PLATEAU STATE LGC ELECTIONS: PARTY AGENTS, ELECTION OFFICER (EO) RAISE ALARM OVER INADEQUATE BALLOT-PAPERS

By: Amb. Valentine Adese (JP),

As the local government council elections are going on in Plateau State, political party agents in Jos-South Local Government Area have raised alarm over inadequate ballot-papers.

In a Special Announcement signed by all the political party agents, made available to REALITY, they signatories claimed that the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC), only provided 150, 000 ballot-papers for the elections each for the Chairmanship and Councillorship elections respectively, when the numbers of registered voters is 307,672.

Adding that, “We the various party agents together with the LG EO, agreed that no additional ballot papers will be accepted for this election outside the 150,000 ballot papers each already distributed to the various electoral Wards & Polling Units”.

READ THE TEXT OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW:

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

It has come to the notice or the Jos South collation agents in the 2024 LG election that the entire LG haS been shortchanged. The much advertised free and fair LG election seem to have taken a different dimension today, during the distribution of both sensitive and none sensitive materials.

The total number of registered voters in Jos South is 307,672, but PLASIEC has provided just 150,000 ballot papers each for both Councillorship and Chairmanship election. This amounts to just 49% of the total voting population in the LGA. 157,672 ballot papers for each election today was not produced and this amounts to about 51% people disenfranchised.

We the various party agents together with the LG EO, agreed that no additional ballot papers will be accepted for this election outside the 150,000 ballot papers each already distributed to the various electoral Wards and Polling Units.

In view of the development, a workable format was arrived at to reflect the 49% ballot paper sharing base on the original voting population of each State ward in Jos South LGA as follows,

1)Bukuru 20,700

2)Chugwi 4,900

3)Dashonong 10,000

4)Du A 5,800

5)Du B 11,650

6)Giring 12,800

7)Gyel A 5,200

8)Gyel B 13,250

9)Hwolshe 8,200

10)Kuru A 4,650

11)Kuru B 5,940

12)Kushe 1,650

13)Shen 2,860

14)Sot 2,220

15)Tanchol 2,400

16)Turu A 4,250

17)Turu B 5,560

18)Vwang 6,150

19)Za'ang A 10,300

20)Za'ang B 11,500

Base on the above tabulation, no additional vote will be accepted outside the total 150,000 votes.

Sign

Party Agents

2024 LG election.