PDP allegations against Lalong, APC a concession of defeat – Dati

Plateau State Commisioner for Information and Communication, Yakubu Dati, has called on citizens of the state to disregard all the recent numerous allegations from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) against the state governor, Simon Lalong, and the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).

Speaking with our Correpondent in Jos, the Commissioner said the daily allegations from the PDP has undoubtedly proven that the party has already known their fate in both the governorship and presidential elections, and are using the baseless allegations to technically concede defeat.

He said the reason the PDP were also crying wolf was because the stalwalts and crowd pullers in the party have moved over to the APC with all their supporters, and making PDP ``dry and hopeless’’.

According to him, the PDP confusion is understandable and that the party is only living in its past glory because the people who brought ideas to the party have left and the only remaining ones are retired and expired politicians.

“Let me tell you, the PDP is already in disarray and the only thing left for them is to be talking and making unfounded allegations. We recently had a retinue of defectors from the PDP to the APC. I am talking of crowd pullers like Ambassador Chris Giwa from Jos South, who recently contested for the senate.

``We also have people like Auwalu Dankruma from Jos North, Senator Victor Lar from Langtan South, who contested for the governorship, Senator Sati Gogwim from Plateau Central, Simon Ngwan a grassroot mobilizer, Hon. Kassam Ngap Jacob of the state assembly, Hon. Shehu Saleh Hassan former naational assembly member, among others.

“How do you think such people will just leave the PPD and cross over to the APC when the election is at hand and you expect the PDP to keep quiet? This is one of their main reasons for their recent ranting, and it is obviously the ranting of a drowning party which has seen the handwriting clearly on the wall that they are going to lose Plateau State.

``When PDP was in power, the APC wrestled power from them. And it will now be very difficult for the PDP to win back power from the APC now that they have tasted the good governance of the governor, and upon the solid political structure the APC has across the 17 local government areas,” he said.

He said the PDP are in fact helping the APC to tell their story, and that one of their allegations for instance was that the APC is using the N-Power beneficiaries for its campaign, which implies that there were truly N-Power beneficiaries in the state in the first place who are overwhelmingly pleased with what the government has done for them and want to come and show their support.

Dati noted that apart from the N-Power beneficiaries, the other achievements of the Governor Lalong’s administration which is deeply biting the PDP included the over 6000 beneficiaries of the anchor borrowers scheme, procurement and distribution of farming implement/fertilizers to farmers, constant payment of salaries, security enhancement, among others.

He called on all the APC supporters and voters generally to go about their campaign peacefully without any form of violence.

Reacting, the PDP Publicity Secretary, John Akans, said the PDP was not afraid of the APC at the polls and that they were just raising alarm to notify the populace of the plans of the APC to rig the election.

Akans said most of the people who defected from the PDP to the APC were those without any political value, stressing that many of them contested elections and lost and were aggrieved.