The leadership of the PDP in Plateau has given its 19 members in the State House of Assembly three months to open up their constituency offices.
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The State Chairman of the party, Dr Haruna Dabin, said this was to increase the chances of the party in future elections.
He?told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Jos that the directive became necessary as the party believed it would aid its effort in forthcoming elections, especially at the local government level.
Besides, Dabin?said that it was also a constitutional requirement which the members had?to meet in carrying out their functions of law making.
He said that the flags of the party flying at those constituency offices would help in consolidating the gains of the party as the offices would provide party loyalists a place to hold regular meetings.
“A situation where a law maker does not have a constituency office means that he is virtually absent because he is only making laws for himself, he is not interacting with his constituency.
“We want them to properly interact with their constituencies so that whatever laws they make, even if they were executive bills, will have an input from their constituency.
Dabin?lamented that currently, only seven second time Assemblymen out of the 19 PDP elected members of the Assembly had constituency offices in the state.
“Only seven of them, who are second time legislators’ already have offices, we have 19 members in the Assembly.''
The PDP chieftain said that the directive which,?would surely be complied with, was to enable the party to be prepared for major political events in the state that may soon unfold.
Dabin,?however, did not prescribe any sanction for failure of the members to comply with the order.
“We want to be on ground because it will add a lot of value to our efforts.''?(NAN)