Anxiety has gripped some opposition politicians in Kogi state as the state government has allegedly acquired equipment to disrupt telecommunications services to make it impossible to communicate during the coming elections.
A credible source informed that the All Progressive Congress (APC) government in the state has procured three network jammers, mounted on two Toyota SUVs and a BMW vehicle for this purpose.
The vehicles are said to have been parked within the premises of Government House, Lokoja.
According to the source, the plan is to ensure that there will be no real-time communication access on election day, totally voter figures emanating from the various polling units and wards across the state.
It was also learnt that the government has equally acquired telephone lines from MTN South Africa, to enable its officials to communicate on election day, having disabled communication by the mass of voters on election day.
The source volunteered: “We have it on good authority, that some operatives in the Yahaya Bello administration who resigned in recent months and weeks, were privy to some of the backstage schemes and shenanigans of the APC-led government in the state, left the employ of the state in good conscience, so as not to be morally complicit in the demonic designs of the government.
“This most recent finding, is coming just as the Kogi State government has equally procured arms and ammunition and trained select youths across the state on weapon handling and subterfuge, in the name of building a security volunteer force.”
The opposition is now apprehensive that the move is part of the government plan to manipulate the elections in favour of the ruling party.
But the PDP has dismissed “any machinations or shenanigans“ that may be undertaken by the Kogi state government as it believed that the people of the state are resolved to vote for its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and other PDP candidates in the elections.
Speaking on the issue in Abuja on Saturday, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbodiyan, said there is nothing the governor can do about PDP’s victory unless there is no election in the state.
“For as long as there is an election on February 16, Kogites have resolved that they will vote for Atiku Abubakar,” he said.
Credit: Tribune
