Kogi State chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has mocked the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state for engaging in “fake defection”.
State Publicity Secretary of the party, Yahaya Bahawudeen, in a statement issued in Lokoja on Friday, described media reports of mass defection from SDP as “audacious fiction”.
He challenged the State Governor, Yahaya Bello, to produce the executive members of the party in the 21 Local Government Areas of the state that reportedly defected to the ruling APC.
“We want to emphasise that no single member of the executive of the SDP in Kogi has decamped or defected to the APC. The name of the Zonal Chairman of Kogi East is Pastor Sunday Atabor; That of Kogi Central is Musa Salawu Odogba while the Zonal Chairman of Kogi West District is Hon Emmanuel Adebayo A.
“All these Zonal Chairmen and the LG Chairmen are not only steadfastly in the party but they are by the grace of God leading the charge to dislodge Mr Yahaya Bello and his cabinet of thugs in the forthcoming November 11, Governorship Elections.
“The names Suleiman Isah and Zubairu Ibrahim given as Zonal Chairmen of Kogi East and Central which was contained in Mr Yahaya Bello’s press statement are fictitious.
“These are not existing humans beings and we challenge Mr Bello to produce these invented ghosts before the public.
“We are worried that Mr Yahaya Bello has graduated from unleashing violence on our party to this new low of peddling fake news.
“We call on the good people of Kogi State to ignore Mr Bello’s desperate falsehoods. Neither his acts of sustained violence of his newfound pass time for falsehood will save him, and his puppet from a disgraceful defeat come November 11, which is exactly three months from today,” he said.
Bahawudeen said no amount of falsehood will stop SDP and its candidate, Alhaji Murtala Yakubu Ajaka, from winning the governorship election on November 11.
