Simon Lalong set to resign as Tinubu’s minister to become Plateau senator

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong is set to resign from President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet.

The Minister has collected his Certificate of Return from Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The Court of Appeal had earlier sacked Peoples Democratic Party’s Bali Napoleon and declared Lalong as the Senator for Plateau South Senatorial Zone.

Lalong who was the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), currently serves as the minister of labour and employment under the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Chairman of the three-member panel, Justice Mahmoud Tukur held that the votes scored by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Napoleon Bali, in the February 25 election were wasted votes as he was invalidly nominated.

The unanimous Monday held that as of the time of the nomination, the PDP had no valid structure in the state.

On the other grounds of over-voting and non-compliance with the electoral laws, the panel ruled that the petitioners could not prove the allegations.