November 07, (THEWILL) – A member of the House of Representatives, Hon Beni Lar (Langtang North/Langtang South), has called on the judiciary to stand its ground and be committed to sanitising and saving Nigeria’s democracy from systemic abuse.
Lar made this call while addressing journalists after a court ruling reinstated the Chairman of Langtang North Local Government Area, Joshua Laven Ubandoma. She saluted the judiciary, describing it as the only organ that checks the excesses of the other arms of government by providing the legal basis for constitutional order.
Lar asked why the Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, would want to abuse executive power and flagrantly violate the Constitution by truncating the mandate given by the people for a definite tenure.
Also the lawmaker described the Justice Kunda Ishaku judgment, which restored Ubandoma to office, as a “landmark” judgement and a lesson against abuse and corruption of power.
She argued that INEC would not have conducted itself like the Plateau Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC), which conducted elections into an office whose mandate was still subsisting and expressed the opinion that the recovery and restoration of Ubandoma’s mandate had brought joy to the entire Langtang North LGA and the people would have more dividends of democracy before the end of his tenure in October 2022.
PLASIEC had curiously terminated the tenure of the PDP-led administration in Langtang North and included it in a controversial local government election in which it declared the APC candidate winner on October 9, 2021.
