The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kogi State
has warned against looming anarchy in the State,
saying police authority has left its duty post for
political thuggery, intimidation of electorate by the
State government and APC.
Deputy Director of Public Communications of the
PDP in Kogi State Campaign Council, Austin Usman
Okai in a press statement on Sunday said the state
Commissioner of Police has refused to stop the
rising political thuggery and intimidation of
electorate by APC thugs in the state.
Okai alleged that the State Commissioner of Police
was giving technical support to the All Progressives
Congress, APC, political thugs in the state, which
has made them untouchable for security agencies
despite glaring evidences of violence against them.
The council called on Police authority, Departments
of State Security to call the outgoing governor of
Kogi state to order, stating that, “nobody has
monopoly of violence but in PDP we believe in
peace.”
”No amount of gun importation into Kogi state will
make Bello popular, we warned that we will not
continue running for help, and we must not be push
into self defense as that will amount to anarchy, if
police failed, we will protect ourselves, the IGP
must guarantee our safety as we will not fold our
hands and watch some APC government officials
intimidate us using police and SARS.
“In Dekina local government, the government
officials have contracted some boys whose
responsibility is to go after our candidate posters
and billboards, the boys are armed in Sienna buses
and guns, the police are aware of their activities but
decided to look the other sides, while the thugs are
boasting they have police and nothing will happen.
Okai also expressed worries over the level of
sporadic gunshots across Abejukolo the
headquarters of Omala local government area of the
state, stressing that activities of the local
government administrator, Hon. Aboh in sponsoring
thuggery activities against the main opposition
party, PDP, under the guise of electioneering
campaigns needs to be checked.
He noted that the LG administrator has contracted
miscreants fully armed who move in Siena and
Sharon buses across the entire local government to
create panic, among members of opposition
political parties in the area.
He said
”Honourable Aboh is known to be harbouring
hoodlums under the cover of vigilante group, but
their main mission is to attack the PDP members
and their families in the local government.”
He said the decision to start now is to create
uneasy calm, instill fears into the electorate and
supporters of PDP from the local government under
the supervision of the state government.
He further stated as qouted
”This ugly trend has also spread to Olamaboro local
government where the coordinator of PDP in the
local government, Enefola Charles Agada and his
family have been harrassed severally, his properties
destroyed and other members of the party chased
out of the area.
“This developement is expected to go round the
local government as the election draws nearer,not
for anything, but to ensure PDP members are
chased out of their homes on the instructions of
APC leaders who are viewing the election as a war.
He called on security agencies in Kogi to without
further delay address the issue of thuggery from the
ruling APC government in the state, noting that the
APC’s only strategy in winning the election is to
instill fear in the minds of the people not to come
and vote in next month’s election.
“The APC have devised several means to spread to
other local government areas of Kogi East to ensure
voters particularly PDP supporters and sympathizers
are not allowed to come out to vote.”
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