Ahead of November 11, governorship election in Kogi State, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has reportedly imported thugs from the neighbouring Toto in Nasarawa State, Taraba and Jigawa States.
The revelation was made known on Tuesday at a press briefing in Lokoja by the Director of Communications of the Muritala Yakubu Ajaka Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation, Faruk Adejo-Audu, saying that tension was already gripping electorate ahead of the election.
Adejo-Audu said that there were numerous attacks on the supporters of the Social Democratic Party, stressing that the party has passed a vote of no confidence on the Commissioner of Police, Berthrand Onuoha for not acting to lessen attacks on the SDP members.
According to him, the Police Commissioner was not fair to all parties participating in the November 11 governorship election in Kogi State.
The SDP chieftain said, “The APC have imported military hardware, thugs from Jigawa, Toto in Nasarawa State, to cause chaos in Kogi.
”It has never happened in Kogi State that two governorship candidates ,Leke Abejide and Muri Ajaka, went to get a court order to allow them campaign. They are doing this just because they don’t want to be arrested by the APC led government and later arraigned in.”
The Spokesperson noted that governor Yahaya Bello has released 21 ex-convicts who were jailed for electoral offences in order to use them, citing, was how he released the late Okwo and after using him, he killed him.
“21 persons sentenced for various degrees of electoral offences were released by Bello. Okwo recently killed was released by Bello. Why is Kogi under Bello when election is coming, there will be fear and apprehension?”
A chieftain of SDP, and the Chairman Muri/Sam campaign, Kogi East, Alhaji Hassan Yakubu Enape, faulted the Kogi State Police Command for saying that it was not aware of the SDP rally in Koton Karfe which led to the death of a party supporter.
Enape explained that the party applied to the Police before holding the rally, adding that the application was acknowledge and approved before they proceeded to Koton-Karfe for the rally.
Meanwhile, findings by CAPITAL POST on Tuesday, revealed that some thugs are currently being camped at Anyigba, seat of Prince Abubakar Audu University. The hoodlums who are the pleasure of the Local Government Council were under serious caution not to move in groups, or expose themselves that much to avoid suspicion.
It was confirmed by our correspondent that some strangers suspected to be thugs from Taraba State came in through Makurdi-Ankpa road. They are camped at an undisclosed location at the pleasure of a member of Kogi State House of Assembly and LG chief executive.
A source who recently defected from the APC to SDP disclosed to CAPITAL POST in Ankpa, stated that the choice of Ankpa and Dekina as targets of violence was as a result of largest votes coming from those areas.
Kogi State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo who is also the Spokesperson for APC’s Ododo governorship Campaign was yet to react to claims by the SDP before filing this report.
