Plateau: LG Polls, How defeated APC Chairmanship Candidate of Jos East shun debates and media
The Long awaited Local Governments Election in Plateau state has come and gone.
At the build up to the election, campaigns were intensively carried out by the three major political parties in Jos East Local Government Area.
There was also a debate of all the Candidates of the 11 Political parties that participated in the election. Both in Jos North and Jos East Local Government Areas.
The Debate which organized by the Afizere Cultural and Community Development Association (ACCDA) in conjunction with Afizere Youth Movement (AYM) and the Women’s wing because they predominantly occupying the two Local Government Areas.
The essence of the debate was to assess the candidates and their Deputies on their manifestos presentation.
Almost all the candidates came out alongside their Deputies and non Izere alike and fully participated in the exercise by robust manifestos presentations,the Chairmanship Candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC ) in Jos East was conspicuously absent, though some claims that he sent in his apology that he was indisposed but same day,his pictures surfaced online In the evening where he was seen addressing his supporters in Fobur B West of Jos East Local Government.
The act sparked outrage among the People of Jos East Local Government Area and Izere as a whole .
Some said it is an affront to the Izere Nation while some said he is totally incompetent and he can’t face the crowd and express himself fluently this and many more condemnations.
In order to seek for clarifications from those issues,a crew of Journalists informed him of their coming to his polling unit to interface with him on election day,he gladly accepted via a reply of SMS sent to him,before leaving Jos to his home town and his Unit Polling unit in Shere,a called was placed to him and promised to meet the journalists in his hometown and when the crew arrived his village,he directed them to his residence on arrival,he smuggled himself out of the House and when Journalists called his line and sent him SMS,he refused to respond and went looking for him at his polling units but no where to be found,up till the moment of filling this report,he has neither call nor reply the SMS.
Unlike him,many candidates, electorates and other Leaders irrespective of their political parties expresses their feelings over the conduct of the election.
