As the electorate in Kogi State brace up for the epic governorship election of Saturday November 21, 2015, the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in the state has unearthed a plot by the rival All Progressives Congress, APC, to unleash mayhem calculated to disrupt the election.
Publicity Secretary of the PDP in the state, Mr Bode Ogunmola, raised the alarm while interacting with newsmen who visited the Secretariat of the Wada/Awoniyi Campaign Organisation in Lokoja, yesterday.
Ogunmola said security reports reaching the party headquarters in the state indicated that strange youngsters had recently encamped in some communities to the utter discomfort of their hosts.
The unknown guests who are most prominent in Ajaokuta and Ijumu local government areas, reside in nondescript hotels, guest houses and indeed in cells in the forests.
They strut around the communities in small groups and clusters, moving around local pubs and bars, and have reportedly been found consuming prohibited substances, even as they have no defined mission.
Fears have been expressed that the set of new arrivals in Ajaokuta may not be unconnected with a terrorist sect fingered in the recent attack on the detention facilities of the Department of State Services, DSS, in Lokoja which was repelled by a coalition of security services.
The youngsters in Ijumu are most prominent in Iyamoye and Ekinrin Adde, fuelling apprehensions that they may be ‘diaspora supporters’ of Hon James Abiodun Faleke, running mate of the Prince Abubakar Audu, the APC governorship candidate. Faleke who until his emergence as APC deputy-governorship candidate in Kogi State, represented Ikeja-Lagos Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, originally hails from Ekinrinade.
Ogunmola called on security services in the state to investigate this development so as to spare the state the potential confusion and disorder, which these virtual aliens, may unleash on innocent lives and property, at the approach of the election.
According to him: We of the PDP, as law abiding citizens owe our people and our country, the obligation to expose anything and everything which may constitute a breach of the peace, law and order in our environment. We cannot be crying wolf where there is none which is why we call on all security agencies to dig into this report to nip this development in the bud.
In specific terms, the Kogi State PDP spokesman invited the attention of the Kogi State Commissioner of Police, the State Director of Security Services, DSS, the Zonal Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA among others, to investigate the allegation.
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