Photo: Lalong
APC will win March 11 governorship election in Plateau —Lalong
Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau State has expressed confidence that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will win in all the Governotship and State Assembly elections in the state.
The governor stated this in Jos, the state capital, while addressing newsmen at the end of his inspection of some ongoing projects in the metropolis.
Lalong was inspecting ongoing works at the British-American Flyover and Dualisation to Lamingo Junction Roundabout.
According to him, the APC has done its ground works through its campaigns at different levels in the state and country, which led to its victory at the presidential polls.
“By this time on Sunday (March 12), APC will produce another governor in Plateau state,” he boasted.
He expressed the hope that the newly elected governor would continue with the good works and projects his administration initiated, for the good of the state.
Periscope International recalls that Lalong had similarly boasted that the APC would win elections from top to bottom at all levels shortly after casting his vote during the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections.
He was however humiliated and defeated in his bid to go to the Senate with a landslide margin by a retired AIr Force Chief, Air Vice Marshal Napoleon Bali.
The governor also lost woefully to the PDP in his Ward, Local Government and Federal Constituency.
PDP also trounced Lalong and APC in the National Assembly elections across the entire state.
PDP won 5 out of 8 House of Representatives seats, and 2 senatorial seats out of the two that have been announced so far.
The presidential election in Plateau State at large, was won by Labour Party’s Peter Obi, which pushed the APC and PDP to a distant second and third positions, respectively.
Following the humiliating defeat, which hit Lalong like a thunderbolt, despite his position as the Director-General of APC Presidential Campaign Council, Lalong has not spoken to the press ever since.
