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From Emmanuel Adeyemi, Lokoja
The Kogi State Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on security agencies to make the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Murtala Ajaka, accountable for the political violence which occurred in Kotokarfi over the weekend, leading to the death of the APC women leader with many sustaining injuries.
Addressing newsmen yesterday, spokesman of the Campaign Council, Kingsley Fanwo, alleged that SDP thugs were the ones that killed an APC woman leader in a political rally held in kotonkarfi on Friday.
Addressing the press, Fanwo said: “We have invited you today to brief you on certain developments as we race to November 11, 2023. Chief among them was the gruesome murder of an unarmed woman at Kotonkarfe by people suspected to be the armed thugs of the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Alh. Muritala Yakubu Ajaka.
“While we commiserate with the family and the entire people of Kotonkarfe, we call on the security agencies to ensure that those who threatened to kill, and went ahead to kill are brought to book. They have, undoubtedly, declared war on the Nigerian state, whose responsibility it is to protect the poor woman, who was killed by the bullets from the barrels of the SDP riffles.
“The rally was a satanic ambush on the peace-loving people of Kotonkarfe, leaving in its wake, blood of an innocent woman whose only sin was belonging to the AIl Progressives Congress.
“We call on the supporters of our party to remain calm as the security agents are trusted to ensure that the killers don’t walk freely without consequences. The Kogi State APC Campaign Council will await the full reports of the security agencies.
“Elections are won on the ballot and not via the bullet. Even in the face of glaring provocation, our party and our campaign, will remain peaceful and play according to the rules of the game
“The unguarded, inflammatory and acidic statements, by the SDP candidate, Ajaka on national television, have not gone unnoticed. What is surprising to us is how he gets away after calling a whole ethnic group ‘a common enemy.
“His desperation in the face of looming humiliation at the polls has undoubtedly put him in a very dangerous corner. Only Muritala Yakubu and the thugs he moves around with think he has a chance.
“We assure you of justice. The murdered won’t die in vain. Ajaka must pay for the blood of the innocent woman.
“In his characteristic way, the SDP candidate through his media handlers had claimed the poor woman was bearing arms. But they never showed us the arms she was bearing.
“Also, our attention has been drawn to calls by some hired persons, calling on the Director General of the Campaign Council to resign his appointment, citing divisive reasons for the call.
“No amount of ethnic parroting can distract the politically sagacious Minister of Steel Development, Prince Shuaibu Abubakar Audu, from the historic task ahead. His late father, Prince Abubakar Audu, was committed to a united, prosperous and peaceful Kogi State.”
However, the SDP insisted that it was the APC thugs that invaded its rally with guns, other deadly weapons and shot sporadically to disperse its supporters.
