Kogi Gov Poll: PDP Alerts Of Evil Acts Against It’s Members, Vows To Unseat APC
Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada 
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alerted of some evil acts being carried out against its member in Kogi, ahead of the state’s November 16 governorship election.
The party accused the ruling party in the state, the All Progressives Congress (APC), of using compromised security operatives to harass, bully and coerce its members in the state.
It also decried the abduction of two of its members, including one of the party’s local government chairmen in the state, calling for their immediate release.
PDP stated this in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Saturday, vowing that no amount of threats, harassment and attempts to intimidate its members and supporters by compromised security agents will deter it from standing together in victory, with the people of Kogi state in the coming governorship poll.
“The people of Kogi state have already made up their minds to vote out the All Progressives Congress (APC), which has only brought excruciating poverty, deprivation, suicide, wanton looting, impunity and total disregard to the wellbeing of citizens; and nothing can detract from the people’s resolve to free their state from the oppressive clutches of the APC.
“The PDP alerts Nigerians on how gunmen dressed in military uniform have been invading homes of PDP members including the chairman of Okene LGA chapter of the party, Musa Adelabu, who the gunmen abducted to an unknown destination.
Only three days ago, another vocal member of the PDP in Kogi State, Abdlu-salam Kunaye, was picked up in a similar manner. The PDP has information that the assailants were sponsored and detailed by desperate elements in APC that have become frenetic over the overwhelming rejection of their party in Kogi state.
The APC is aware that it has already lost grounds in Kogi state, following its woeful performance in the last four years under the out-going Governor Yahaya Bello, and as such, it is seeking ways to muscle its way by manipulations, harassment, coercing and bullying, which will be resolutely resisted by the people of Kogi state,” the statement read.
The PDP then called for the immediate release of our Okene LGA chairman and all those abducted. According to it, the incarceration of the members “is already raising tension capable of sparking serious consequences.”
