In Curious Moves, PDP Uses ADP to Trash APC in Plateau

Chuks Okocha in Abuja

In what appeared some political masterstroke in the recent Plateau rerun election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), used the  Action Democratic Party (ADP) to trash the All Progressives Congress Party (APC).

By leading in five of the six local government areas in the Plateau North Senatorial re-run, the ADP had put the APC to a distant second with the the support of the PDP which was excluded from the contest.

Returning Officer for the exercise, Prof. Nestor Chagok, announced that the ADP candidate, Mr Pam Dachungyang, was already leading with 91,184 votes.
The APC Candidate, Mr Chris Giwa, came a distant second with 31,183, while the Labour Party (LP) Candidate,  Mr Gyang Zi, trailed behind with 20,395.
The results showed that ADP won in all the five LGAs, namely Barkin Ladi, Bassa, Jos South, Jos East and Riyom.

A breakdown of the results showed that in Barkin Ladi, ADP polled 19,663, APC got 4,700 and LP 7,989
In Jos South, ADP got 38,605, APC 11,416 and LP 6,638 and in Jos East, ADP got 7,750, APC 2,817, and LP 2,725.
In Riyom, ADP polled I2,130, APC 4,342, LP-1,942, while in Bassa, ADP scored 13,036, APC 7,908 and LP 6,101.
The outstanding result for Jos LGA was still being collated at the time of filing this report.