APC Plotting To Disrupt Kogi, Bayelsa Governorship Polls – PDP

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm over plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to incite violence in Kogi and Bayelsa States, with a view to cause confusion, frustrate the electoral process and possibly impede the forthcoming governorship elections in the states.

The governorship election in Kogi has been slated for November 21 while that of Bayelsa comes up on December 5.

The allegation came on the heels of the inauguration of the APC campaign committee for the governorship election in Kogi.

The PDP claimed that the APC, having realized that it did not have the support of the electorate in the two states, has resorted to disrupting the polls using political thugs.

A statement yesterday by the PDP national publicity secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, therefore, called on the people of Kogi and Bayelsa states to be vigilant and ensure that they did not fall prey to the antics of the governing party.

“The APC has perfected a heinous plot to inject crisis in Kogi and Bayelsa, ostensibly to frustrate the electoral procedures within the constitutional time frame, so as to prevent PDP candidates, governors Idris Wada and Seriake Dickson, from being re-elected into office”, the PDP alleged.

The party also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to see the two forthcoming elections as litmus test of his democratic credentials just as it appealed to all security agencies and the international community to note the “evil machination” of the APC and hold them responsible for any untoward incident.

In a separate development, the national chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, has described the Kogi governorship election as a must-win for the party.

The APC national chairman stated this during the inauguration of the national campaign committee for the state election at the party’s headquarters in Abuja.

According to Oyegun, the Kogi election would be the first for the party to test its strength after the last general elections.

He noted that since his party was able to defeat and remove a monstrous regime at the centre, the Kogi election will not be a big problem for the party.

Mr. Oyegun announced the appointment of Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State as the chairman of the campaign committee, with all APC governors in the north central as members.

In his remarks, the candidate of the party in the election, Prince Abubakar Audu, promised that he would return Kogi to the fold of the APC.

Among those present at the occasion were governors Abubakar Bello (Niger), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Solomon Lalong (Plateau) and Samuel Ortom (Benue).

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