The Kogi State All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Campaign Council has urged the people to hold the Social Democratic Party (SDP) accountable in the event that the INEC office in Lokoja has any problems.
According to the campaign council, the party was persuaded that the SDP’s fabricated report of a supposedly planned attack on the INEC office was a ruse to hide the party’s actual goal of demolishing the INEC office and then blaming the APC for it.
“as they know they have no evidence to substantiate their characteristic lies about the credibility of the Kogi State Governorship Poll that has been adjudged as the best in the democratic history of our dear state.
A statement signed by the director of Media and publicity/spokesperson for the Council, Kingsley Fanwo, said, “Their clandestine move to cover up their propaganda-fuelled claims about the election is well documented as we call on security agencies to fortify security around the Offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission across the state.
“No amount of propaganda can help their baseless, senseless, unsubstantiated claims after their scorecard at the Poll was at complete variance with their boastful pre-election posture. They have resorted to attacking INEC and everyone except themselves. Such is the sorry state of a party and its candidate who lacks the political pedigree to challenge the politically rooted APC in Kogi State.
“Despite their intimidation and blood-letting rampage in some parts of the state, INEC conducted a credible, free and fair election and the security agencies also ensured that the votes of the people counted.
“We commend Kogites for standing up to ethnic bigots by responding resoundingly with votes that reflected our unity as a people.
“No one is afraid of the legal challenge of the SDP. They failed to win the election, failed to steal ballot boxes, failed to disunite our state and our people. They were in the race to fail endlessly.”
The SDP had in a statement on Sunday claimed that it had uncovered plans to burn down INEC Office in Kogi State.
“It has come to our notice via grave vines that there is an urgent need for security to be beefed around the Kogi State INEC office in order to avert the sinister plot to burn down the office by mandate bandits,” the party said in a statement signed by Isaiah Ijele, DG, New Media, MuriSam Campaign Council.
