Untold Reasons For The Plot To Sack Governor Mutfwang

Political permutations for 2027 and the bid by the political camp of the immediate past governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong for rediscovery are behind the alleged plot to sack Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State.

GWG.ng reports that Plateau State has been at the centre of controversy in the last week over the sack of at least six members of the National Assembly elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP over pre-election cases instituted against the party.

The sack of the PDP lawmakers led to demonstrations across the state last Wednesday that saw the president of the Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem who is from the state being put under focus over the alleged use of pre-election matters to sack the lawmakers.

Speaking in an interview, Hon. Dachung Bagos who was removed as member of the House of Representatives, Jos South, Jos East lamented that the Court of Appeal presiding over the cases in Plateau had been twisting the law in its head by using pre-election matters to uproot members of the PDP who won elections in Plateau.

He expressed fears that the same forces could also be after the governor of the state. He spoke against the background of claims that the ruling APC is determined to take control of the APC to navigate a safe return in 2027 given increasing hostility to the party in the Northwest.

“You know the APC is under pressure in the Northwest and what it can get in the Middle Belt it is now trying to get,” a political commentator conversant in the region spoke at the weekend.

Besides, the commentator added the determination of the former governor of the state, Simon Lalong who lost his Senate bid to Senator Napoleon Bali win back his ego by ensuring that he returns the state to the APC to increase his political leverage in Abuja.

However, contending against the judgments of the Court of Appeal which he said were contrary to the decisions of the Supreme Court, Hon Bagos said that PDP members were afraid that the courts were being used to remove the PDP from the plateau.

“That’s a fear that every PDP member has. We are now being looked upon as orphans that nobody can speak for. If we have a president that has sworn

“Now that the members of the National Assembly members are gone, they are going for the members of the State House of Assembly, 16 of them. If it is an issue of illegality, INEC would not have been part of that illegality,” he said as he noted that his biggest fear is a form of anarchy in the state.

Speaking on his sack from the House of Representatives, he added:

“It was like a military coup that happened on the Plateau. From the reaction you have seen on the streets sacking seven National Assembly members through the courts and all of them from the PDP. These are people that none of them won our election with less than 50,000 votes. The difference between me and the first runner up was 65,000.”

“There is no way that you will not get that kind of reaction from the people, because they know that there is an act of injustice against them. I can tell you that the shock has led to the death of four persons,” Bagos spoke of the protests that have occurred in the state in the last few days.

Earlier, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA had at a press conference deplored what it called the rigging of election petition judgments in favour of the APC and called the president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem who is from the state to put herself above political bias.

Addressing a press conference on Sunday in Abuja, HURIWA’s national coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said recent events in Plateau have cast a shadow of doubt and suspicion over the integrity of the judiciary.

HURIWA particularly raised concerns over what it described as the “rigging” of election judgments to give the advantage to the APC.

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