The Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) on Saturday issued certificates of return to 16 members-elect for the Plateau State Home of Meeting.
The members-elect have been declared winners of the March 18 elections after the Court docket of Enchantment nullified the election of these declared by INEC.
The Information Company of Nigeria, NAN, experiences that of the 16 members-elect, 15 have been All Progressives Congress, APC, members, whereas one was a member of the Labour Occasion.
Dr Oliver Agundu, Plateau INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, mentioned that the train fulfilled the directives of the Enchantment Court docket.
Agundu mentioned that the Enchantment Court docket had directed the fee to difficulty certificates of return to the lawmakers because the rightful winners of the elections.
He congratulated the lawmakers-elect for the feat and wished them properly as they settled right down to serve the state.
Chief Rufus Bature, APC State Chairman, mentioned that the Enchantment Court docket victory additional strengthened the electoral course of and deepened Nigeria’s democracy.
Bature cautioned the lawmakers in opposition to mockery of different political events within the state and urged them to be magnanimous in victory.
“The pursuits of Plateau will at all times stay the highest precedence. We’re taking a look at democracy as being about ourselves and never about ourselves.
“My cost to the members is that we should always take a look at Plateau as our start line in no matter we’re going to do,” he mentioned.
The Member-elect for Jos North West, Mr Sunday Naah, mentioned that he was acutely aware of the excessive expectations of residents and pledged to provide his all to the expansion of his constituency and the state at giant.
Naah assured his constituents that he would make high quality legal guidelines to alleviate the sufferings of the folks of Jos North West Constituency.