Simon Lalong (APC/Plateau South) and All Progressives Congress stakeholders have urged President Bola Tinubu to fill Plateau’s vacant ministerial slot.

The stakeholders made the appeal during the APC critical stakeholders meeting in Jos on Monday.

Mr Lalong, the APC leader, said that since he resigned and moved to the Senate over seven months ago, Plateau has no representation in the Federal Executive Council.

The former governor said they were all concerned that they had been without a minister for a long time.

“It is not fair that Plateau has been without a minister for the past seven months. Whatever is the stumbling block, we want it removed so that we will have a minister because we are entitled to it constitutionally.

“I know the president is a democrat, and he listens to his people. I am sure, by the time he returns from his trip abroad, he will do something so that we will have a minister,” he said.

Mr Lalong described the Plateau House of Assembly Speaker’s prolonged failure to inaugurate the remaining six APC members, who won their cases at the Appeal Court, as unconstitutional and unfortunate.

The senator, who was a two-term speaker of the assembly, said that he had never seen such an aberration in any state assembly across the country.

He urged the APC members to push for the inauguration of their colleagues.

Diket Plang (APC/Plateau Central) assured the stakeholders that National Assembly members on the platform of the party would be productive.

Mr Plang said that by doing so, they would woo more members for the party. He urged the party stakeholders and supporters to unite and win the forthcoming local government elections.

The deputy speaker of the Plateau House of Assembly, Madaki Ajiji (APC/Jos East), solicited the support of members to enable the lawmakers to succeed.

Mr Ajiji promised that the APC lawmakers would continue to work for the interest of the state and the party. 

(NAN)