Barring last-minute change of mind, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong is set to resign.
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.
Delivering judgement, a three-member panel led by Justice Elfreda Williams-Dawodu declared as unlawful and wasted votes cast for PDP in the election and declared the immediate-past governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, as the rightful winner of the Plateau South Senatorial District election.
Lalong, who stood for the election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had emerged second in the Senatorial election.
Justice Williams-Dawodu held that the PDP and its candidate have no legal ground to participate in the election having failed to obey the judgment of a Plateau High Court that the party should conduct lawful congresses for the purpose of having officers for Wards, Local Governments and State Council.
