The Chairman of Langtang North Local Government Area of Plateau State, Hon. Joshua Ubandoma Laven, has claimed that the State Governor, Simon Lalong, is responsible for the lack of payment of workers’ salaries in the council.

Laven stated this in Saturday while speaking to journalists in Jos, expressing that the state government has refused to pay the local government workers following series of letters to the Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.

He said, “My victory in court is a victory for democracy in Nigeria, I can assure you that the precedent I have laid down in Plateau saved the present clueless APC administration in the state from imposing all local government chairmen without an election.

“Governor Simon Lalong is poise to destroy the Tarok nation, he is poise to destroy the hard earned democracy that he is enjoying because there was no vacancy on in Langtang North when the purported election was conducted.” (Saturday Independent)