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The Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong has tendered his resignation from President Bola Tinubu’s government.
Lalong submitted his resignation letter at the federal executive council (FEC) meeting held on Wednesday.
His resignation is for him to resume as the Senator representing Plateau South Senatorial District.
This is coming after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) presented Lalong with his Certificate of Return (CoR) earlier this year.
Recall Lalong, a two-term governor of Plateau State, had contested but lost the February 25, 2023 election. INEC had declared Napoleon Bali of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of the election.
Dissatisfied with the outcome of the elections, Lalong had headed for the tribunal, which ruled in his favour.
Recall the Court of Appeal in September sacked People’s Democratic Party’s Bali Napoleon and declared Lalong as the Senator representing Plateau South Senatorial District.
The three-man panel of the Appeal Court led by Justice Williams Daudu affirmed the decision of the Tribunal regarding the election’s outcome.
The National Assembly and State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Jos had, on September 11, declared Lalong, who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the Senator-elect representing Plateau South, and sacked Bali based on irregularities in the PDP primaries that produced him.
TNG reports this puts to rest the confusion on whether Lalong should move to the Senate or retain his position in the cabinet of President Bola Tinubu.
Addressing a crowd recently, he said: “Each time I am with him (a comrade), he will remind me that, please don’t go to Senate, please remain with us at the Ministry of Labour.
“Maybe that is not what my constituency will also say because as I am now, I am a very confused man, because I dont know whether to go to left or go to right but pray for me to take the best decision”.