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PDP candidate Jeremiah Useni petitioned to disqualify Lalong from the March 2019 governorship election, alleging he had submitted a certificate to INEC bearing a different name from his own and alleging broader electoral irregularities.

The Election Petition Tribunal, chaired by Justice Halima Saleeman, dismissed Useni's petition; the Court of Appeal in Jos affirmed that decision, finding Useni failed to prove forgery or irregularities; the Supreme Court upheld Lalong's election as final.

Following the June 2018 attacks that killed between 86 and over 150 people in Barkin Ladi and Riyom, the state government said it would investigate the causes and directed security chiefs to pursue those responsible.

A curfew was imposed and security chiefs were directed to act, but no comprehensive public accounting of arrests, prosecutions, or a full state-commissioned inquiry report into the June 2018 killings was identified for this entry.

Lalong's predecessor, Jonah Jang, was tried by the EFCC over an alleged ₦6.3 billion fraud; Jang was acquitted, and the EFCC publicly vowed to appeal the acquittal, a case Lalong's administration had itself referenced when accusing the Jang government of financial impropriety at the 2015 handover.

An investigative report found the EFCC had provided no public update on its promised appeal 39 months after vowing to file it, leaving the case's final status unresolved.

The Plateau State 9th House of Assembly suspended 17 local government chairmen during Lalong's second term over allegations of financial misappropriation.

No independent audit or agency findings resolving the individual chairmen's cases were identified for this entry; the episode was later cited by civil society groups as part of a broader case for an EFCC probe of the administration's local-government oversight.