Member of the Kogi State House of Assembly representing Igalamela/Odolu constituency, Hon Friday Sanni Makama has said he narrowly escaped been assasinated during the Saturday supplementry election.
Addressing newsmen in Lokoja, the lawmaker who won the re run election alleged that two gunmen had laid ambush for him on his way to the polling unit and their purpose was to kill him before he cast his vote .
According to him, it was one of his supporters who had gone to the bush to defecate that sighted them, and they immediately raised the alarm as youths in the community all came out to overwhelm the suspected killers.
While showing pictures of the suspects to newsmen with their gun, he identified one of the gunmen as a dismissed police officer while the other was a cashier of a local government.
The law maker who claimed that the All Progressive Congress drafted soldiers and armed security men to terrorise the electorates said he complained to state police commissioner, Samuel Adeyemi Ogunmiluyi who refused to do anything.
While condemning the attack on the State NUJ chairman, Comrade Ali Atabor who was attacked by hoodlums and beaten black and blue, he decried the manner the APC was using thugs to torment the PDP saying such will not be tolerated in October governorship election.
Sanni however, thanked the electorates for re electing him back into the Assembly saying he will justify the confidence reposed in him.
Meanwhile, the state governor, Idris Wada has ordered the immediate sack of the cashier who was alleged to have been involved in the attempted assasination of the legislator.
