Plateau APC crisis: Group declares governor Lalong a tyrant, writes Buhari

The Integrity Group of the All Progressives Congress, Plateau State Chapter has reacted to the crisis rocking the Plateau State All Progressives Congress and declared the State governor, Barr. Simon Bako Lalong a tyrant.

The group in a letter of complaint which was addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari and sighted by CAPITAL POST claimed that governor Lalong’s action was portraying President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC as a political party in bad light before Nigerians.

The letter which was signed by the convener of the group, Comrade John Tokmat told Buhari that the party in Plateau State was in deep crisis due to tyrannical posture of the State governor.

The letter lamented that Buhari’s commitment to safety and security of citizens, vis-a-vis his corruption battle was being messed up as Lalong’s tyrannical behavior would be mistaken to be how the APC political leaders behaves.

Part of the letter reads: “Today, you are the President of Nigeria, we acknowledge you and respect you as such because you have shown Nigerians leadership through exemplary leadership: fighting insurgency and corruption to instill discipline in the polity and ensure that our dear party the APC continues beyond 2023.

“However, the act of an individual has a way of rubbing off on the generality, hence, our call through this short letter.

“Your Excellency, Sir, the Governor of Plateau State who claimed to be your loyal son is not true to his word and to the principle of our dear party, the APC.

“As it stands now, the APC in Plateau State is in a deep crises, courtesy the actions of the governor, first, leadership into the party were imposed from the grassroot, Wards LGAs and State undermining the very definition of “progressives” that our party principle stood for.

The letter fumed how the governor had allowed his political appointees to nominate party executives without recourse to internal democracy, a development that has caused bickering among the members who have been keeping the party together.

Governor Lalong, they added, has been deceiving the people and oppressing them, particularly that he refuse to allow internal democracy of the party to work, stressing that if nothing was done to salvage the party in Plateau, its destruction has soon started..

“In a democracy, leaders are elected to lighten the burden of the people, give them freedom, choice, and equity and ensure good governance and not deceive them, burden them, oppress them, render them hopeless and helpless.

“Tyranny in all its manifestation may be appealing to a leader in trying times of political feud or disagreement. Democracy must, however, prevail and be held as sacrosanct.

“To us this will loosen the structure of internal party democracy in APC because as it stands there is no publication of candidates’ names who purchased forms in the just concluded staged managed LG elections.

“In fact, some never bought forms but got nominated, the question is why? This idea of beating the people and refusing them the right to cry is the time bomb waiting to explore.”

The group wondered how the governor secretly worked on the new structure alone, which they insisted was novel in the political history of Plateau State.

“For the first time in the political history of Plateau state, your Excellency, the appointees of the Governor took party structures sidelining the party, with this political impunity, the level of secrecy that characterized the state congress is an eye saw. Because never will a sane society accept this Primitive political performance.”