By Daniel Dauda in Jos


The ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) aspirants in Qua'anPan Local Government Area for the forthcoming Local Government elections in Plateau State took to the streets to protest against the imposition of candidates without primaries.

The aspirants with their supporters besieged the party secretariat in Doemark LGA to express their grievances.

It would be recalled that APC held its primaries across the 17 local governments of Plateau on Wednesday.

Mrs Magdalene Nanyil, a chairmanship aspirant on behalf of other aspirants said that the chairmanship and councillorship primaries did not hold in the area.

According to her, the purported names of candidates allegedly submitted to the party executive were not the mandate of APC in Qua'anPan.

"We were told yesterday (Wednesday) to converge here at the party secretariat in Doemak for the party primaries, but the people didn't come, we all waited here till nightfall, but none of them came to conduct the party primaries."

"This afternoon, we were informed that names of candidates from Qua'anPan  LGA have been submitted to the party secretariat in Jos.

"We won't accept that; that is why we are calling on the leader of the party, Governor Simon Lalong to quickly intervene so that the decision can be reversed for the interest of all party faithfuls".

She described the decision as "injustice of the highest order" and won't be tolerated; she threatened legal action.

The protestants were seen carrying placards with various inscriptions accusing some APC stakeholders from the locality,  to have masterminded the act.  

They alleged further that APC party stakeholders of Qua'anPan short-changed popularly accepted aspirants at the detriment of a few individuals.

Some protesting party supporters while chanting disaffection songs, threatening to leave APC to join other political parties.

It was observed that the APC Secretariat in Doemak looked abandoned, as it is under locked and key.

But the State Secretary of the party, Mallam Bashir Sati in response said following the successful conduct of the APC primary elections;" however, our attention has been drawn to an unauthorized circulation of fake list of purported winners of the elections on social media. 

"Members of the party should disregard the message and avoid making statements that will promote the agenda of mischief-makers. 

"This clarification has become necessary to ensure that no member of the party is misled," he said.