A chieftain of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and House of Representatives candidate in the re – run election for Dekina / Bassa Federal Constituency, Sani Idakwo Philips has urged electorates in Dekina and Kogi State at large to come out en masse and vote for candidates of the Social Democratic Party for all elective positions in the state come Saturday, 9th March, 2019.
Idakwo made this call while addressing newsmen on the state of preparedness of the Party in Dekina.
Idakwo decried the spate of primitive rigging, criminal collusion to concoct results for the APC, violence, threats, intimidation and killings that occurred in the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly Elections in the state especially in Kogi East and Central where lives and properties were lost with the election deliberately and shamefully rigged in favour of the ruling party.
Idakwo expressed shock and surprise in the allocation of โjumbo votesโ by the Electoral Officer of Dekina to the APC Ccndidate for the House of Representatives election even in places where elections never held; wondering where INEC and the Electoral Officer of Dekina got such votes from although the electoral officer admitted in his report that it was done under compulsion and at gun point.
“It is a known fact that elections did not take place at Anyigba ward as witnessed andย reported by all media houses in the country but in the Certified True Copy of Results obtained by the SDP, the Electoral Officer of Dekina allocated by fait, 10,000 (ten thousand) votes to the candidate of the APC,” he said.
Idakwo advised electorate in Dekina and Kogi State at large not to sell their votes for money in return as obtainable in the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly Elections where he alleged votes were bought outrightly with security agencies supervising and coordinating the sales.
He charged voters to vote for candidates that are ready to serve with integrity for the progress of the state.
Idakwo predicts victory for the party if the election is allowed to be free and fair.
Idakwo exerted that Kogi electorate needs to runway from the mal -administration of the current APC led State government by voting them out and must run very fast riding on the speed of the white horse which is the Social Democratic Party (SDP).