Governor admits using late uncle’s name in election documents

Gov. Simon Bako Lalong,

Simon Bako Lalong, the Governor of Plateau State,  admits honouring his late uncle, Miskoom, Stephen Sule Nanbiet, whose name he said, he used in his credentials.

However, this  is now being contested by the opposition candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Gen. Jeremiah Useni (rtd) at the election petition tribunal.

The Governor, who was at the memorial service of late Nanbiet at the Sacred Heart Cathedral Shendam, accompanied by his wife, Regina, said he grew up with him and used his name partly before he obtained an affidavit for change of name, The Sun reports.

Lalong siezed the opportunity to give more insight into the controversy surrounding his names which is being contested at the election petition tribunal by the candidate of the PDP in the last governorship elections.

He said in a statement by his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Dr Makut Simon Macham said: “When my uncle asked my father to release me to him, my father told him that he had become your son, take him with you. Because of the kind of tradition of love and oneness that exists in our culture, all of us under him bore his name, Sule, because he registered us in school.

“It was when I finished school that my uncle said now that you are grown up and since you are the first male child of your father, you need to bear his name. That was when I did an affidavit to take on my family name Bako. But unfortunately, my opponents are making an issue of it even when the tribunal rejected their arguments.”

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