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PDP Alleges Plot By Yahaya Bello’s Kogi Government To Plant Guns, Ammunition, Others At Its Candidates’ Homes, Campaign Offices

PDP Alleges Plot By Yahaya Bello’s Kogi Government To Plant Guns, Ammunition, Others At Its Candidates’ Homes, Campaign Offices
October 27, 2022

The party added that it had uncovered plans to plant guns, ammunition and other incriminating weapons at the home of its Kogi Central senatorial candidate, Natasha Hadiza Akpoti Uduaghan.

 

The Peoples Democratic Party has raised the alarm over an alleged conspiracy by the Kogi State government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to cause harm to the lives, reputations and ambitions of its candidates ahead of the 2023 elections.

According to the PDP in a letter to the police, Army and State Security Service (Department of State Services), the party’s candidates have faced an undue and unprecedented level of persecution, intimidation and attacks against their persons as well as their close political associates since their emergence.

The party added that it had uncovered plans to plant guns, ammunition and other incriminating weapons at the home of its Kogi Central senatorial candidate, Natasha Hadiza Akpoti Uduaghan.

Akpoti ran for the post of senator under the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 2019.

In 2019, she was a governorship candidate in the state, challenging Bello.

In May, Akpoti won the PDP primary election for the 2023 Kogi Central Senatorial District, to go against the ruling APC’s Abubakar Ohere, among others.

The letter read, “I am the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State. I write this humble petition on behalf of the PDP in Kogi State, the candidates of our party for the various political offices in Kogi State in the 2023 general election, and more specifically on behalf of our candidate for the Kogi Central Senatorial District, and seek your urgent intervention in respect of the above subject matter.

“Sir, I wish to bring to your kind attention the information at the disposal of our candidate regarding the conspiracy by the government and people loyal to the government of Kogi State, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kogi Chapter, to cause harm to the life, reputation and ambition of our candidates and our notable members. Since their emergence, our candidates have faced an undue and unprecedented level of persecution, intimidation and attacks against their persons as well as their close political associates.

“Through her various cohorts and political thugs, the Kogi State government and Kogi APC have resorted to underhanded schemes in order to thwart the ambition of our candidates, whose only crime is harkening to the voice of their people to give them a much-desired effective representation at the National Assembly.

“Having failed in their numerous attempts to turn the people against our party and her candidates, the state government and her loyalists have now hatched the nefarious stratagem to plant incriminating materials in the various properties of our candidates and their political associates.

“Specifically, the government is perfecting plans to plant guns, ammunition and other incriminating weapons at the home of our Kogi Central senatorial candidate, Chief Mrs. Natasha Hadiza Akpoti Uduaghan, located at Plot 101, Dr Jimoh Akpoti Street, Obeiba-lhima, Okehi LGA, Kogi State, her campaign office located opposite the Central Mosque in Okene, Kogi State as well as in the homes and offices of her notable political associates and other candidates of the PDP running for various offices in the upcoming 2023 general elections in a bid to stage a phantom ground to procure a search warrant in order to embarrass and harass us.

“In view of the foregoing, our party reasonably believes that the lives of our candidates and those of their family members, their political associates and members of the PDP in Kogi State are under serious threat from Kogi State government and its thugs. What is more, our candidates and indeed our party are troubled by the desperation of the state government to install her stooges in the various political offices in Kogi State in order to remain politically relevant in the state - for this purpose he has vowed to crush all opposition.

“We therefore humbly bring this petition to your good offices for the threats and conspiracy of the state government and her loyalists as well as the Kogi APC to be investigated and prevented. We urge you to intervene and thwart the plans of the governor and save the good people of Kogi State from the government's evil machinations which are capable of causing a serious breach of the peace. We thank you in advance for your kind attention and consideration of this petition.”

Meanwhile, Bello in a video published recently vowed that he would ensure his party wins all the elections in the state by whatever means.

On Monday, Safiu, the stepbrother of Abdulkarim Asuku, the Chief of Staff to Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello was abducted by gunmen.

Multiple sources said that Safiu was abducted by the governor’s hitmen led by one Charles, who is the head of the Navy Special Task Force in the state.

The victim was said to have recently dumped the ruling APC for the PDP.

“The boy’s name is Safiu, he is actually a stepbrother to the Chief of Staff. He was with APC and switched to PDP. Reason he was kidnapped. They fear he knows much about their atrocities. He was working as a political thug for Yahaya Bello before he left APC; he was involved in many attacks on political opponents in Kogi State. So, they felt losing him to PDP would be disastrous,” a source had said.

“So they sent Nigerian Navy officers who are loyal to the governor to kidnap him today. The hitmen working for the governor picked him up; they have taken him somewhere else. The group who kidnapped him was led by one Charles; he is the head of the hitmen working for Yahaya Bello.”

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