The Leadership of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, of the 19 Northern States has condemned in strong terms the invasion of the premises of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Jos by those described as hooligans. This was disclosed by the IPAC Chairman of the 19 Northern States and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party,(SDP), Hon. Abubakar Dogara.
While condemning the recent invasion of tribunal premises, he described the action as undemocratic and caused by selfish and desperate politicians to mobilize miscreants and hooligans to the tribunal premises to create confusion.
Dogara also used the opportunity to sympathize with the Government and People of Plateau State over the recent losses of lives and property in the State as a result of attacks by unknown gunmen in some LGas in the State. He urged Governor Caleb Mutfwang to be decisive and fish out the perpetrators of dastardly killings and civil unrest in the State.
Hon Abubakar Dogara made this known while interacting with Journalists at the SDP Secretariat in Jos, the Plateau State Capital.
In his own words, Hon Dogara noted that “This is very surprising, it is surprised that something like this happens in Plateau, Plateau state is very mature in politics and we have one people and united people on the Plateau but unfortunately some politicians try to use hooligans to cause confusion at the venue of an election tribunal.”
“It unfortunate because a court premise is supported to be the safest place for every citizen and no one knows what will be the outcome of the tribunal There is no reason why some people will go there and harass their opponent especially if that is a sitting Governor somebody would hire people to go and disgrace him,” he said.
Stressing that “I don’t think that the people that did that act disgraced the Governor but they ended up disgracing themselves so on the other hand I called the attention of the sitting Governor to make sure that he reach out to all the stakeholders especially the political stakeholders to bring an end to this kind of happening in the state.”
Abubakar Dogara advised all the sister political parties (i.e the 18 political parties operating here on the Plateau) to continue to treat themselves as the brothers and sisters that they have been, stressing that “…i might be in government today and tomorrow someone else would occupy the government house.”.
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