The governorship campaign council of All Progressives Congress (APC) has reiterated calls for the arrest of Alhaji Murtala Yakubu Ajaka, candidate of Social Democratic Party in the November 11 election.
Spokesman of the APC campaign, Kingsley Fanwo, made the call in a statement on Wednesday while reacting to the protest at the state office of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Fanwo stated that Wednesday’s “failed attack by supporters and thugs of the Social Democratic Party to attack the State INEC Office in Lokoja has confirmed our recent alarm that the party is determined to destroy every relevant government institution just to maintain their false claim to popularity.”
“The attempted plan to lynch INEC staff and burn down the INEC Office was gallantly averted by security agents. Their promptness and professionalism is highly commended as their timely intervention saved what would have been a bloody day as weapon-wielding thugs of the SDP were dangerously threatening to make the state ungovernable.”
Fanwo noted that “the laughable story of the SDP that the thugs were hired by our party is no deviation from their culture of terrible and senseless propaganda and strategy to blame everyone else for their own actions.
“It is high time the thoroughly defeated candidate of the SDP and his co-travellers to an unknown destination are arrested to forestall further breakdown of law and order.”
He called on APC supporters to remain law abiding in the face of glaring provocation, assuring that the Governor-Elect, Alhaji Usman Ododo, will be sworn in on January 27, 2024 to advance the frontiers of development in Kogi state.
The APC campaign spokesperson reiterated the party’s readiness for any legal challenge relating to the recently concluded governorship election in the state.
