In the same vein, in 2023, Nentawe Yilwatda the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was a casualty of Lalong’s poor governance. He may
have been a good man, but Lalong became the albatross that made the people sank him and his aspiration when he forced him on the APC, a development that shredded the party into pieces.
He gave the assurance in an interview arguing that, “This time around, Governor Lalong, being a democrat, meticulously supervised the zoning of the governorship to the central zone on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in line with the zoning arrangement. And for this reason, there is no dissenting voice; everybody is happy.
Furthermore, Lalong’s utterances at any given fora were as if all that mattered to him was Aso Rock and how not to step on President Muhammadu Buhari’s toes, and how to do everything to favour the core North is his albatross. Again, there were instances when Plateau people were massacred by the so-called unknown gunmen and the response of the state government under the current administration was always that of a passive onlooker. They have experienced almost eight years of pains and hardship with nobody speaking for Plateau people.
This perhaps explains why the governor monumentally failed his senatorial election in his country home Shendam LGA. The people are tired of failed promises and are extremely in abject poverty. They regret ever voting the current administration to power and this revolution is deeply expressed in the just concluded governorship election as they decided to retire the APC from the state because they had witnessed backwardness in the past seven years of their administration.
The PDP did not only win the governorship seat but also won more national and state assembly seats in the elections. Out of the 24 members of the house of assembly, PDP won 16 seats. The development goes to explain how disenchanted the electorate now feel about the APC because of its poor performance in the state in nearly eight years.
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