Kogi: Police deny planning attack on SDP candidate and supporters
The CENI and the police promise a peaceful and credible vote
The Kogi State Police have warned Social Democratic Party (SDP) gubernatorial candidate, Murtala Ajaka, and his campaign organization to keep the police out of any political controversy.
/p> In a statement issued yesterday, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP William Ovye-Ayah, urged the party to focus on issue-based campaigns, instead of resorting to cheap blackmail, intimidation and arm-twisting to gain political sympathy from the public. . The statement reads: “The attention of the Kogi State Police Command has been drawn to a false, inflammatory, perfidious, malicious and misleading allegation by one Faruk Adejoh-Audu, Director of Communications of the campaign organization of Governor Murtala Ajaka, according to which the Commissioner of Police, Bethrand Onuoha is planning to attack Ajaka supporters in Kogi. “The command wishes to state categorically that this statement is not only the figment of the imagination of Adejoh-Audu and his political candidate, Yakubu Ajaka, who has mastered the art of political stratagem and brigandage, but that she is completely false, malicious, pretentious and highly mischievous."
MEANWHILE, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the police have assured the Kogi people of peaceful and credible elections. Ovye-Aya and the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr. Gabriel Longpet, gave this assurance during a workshop organized by the International Press Center (IPC) for 26 journalists in Abuja. According to Longpet, the commission has made adequate preparations to consolidate the February 25 and March 18, 2023 polls to ensure that the November 11 gubernatorial election is peaceful, smooth, fair and credible. “We hope to ensure that all results of the gubernatorial election in the 3,508 polling stations spread across 239 wards in the state are transmitted electronically to eliminate any attempt to tamper with manual results during transfer to the polling centers. collection. “We are in synergy with all stakeholders, including security operatives, civil society organizations (CSOs) and the media, to ensure that we get it right on November 11,” he said . Ovye-Aya, on his part, said the police were ready to provide tight security during the Kogi elections to prevent the activities of criminal elements from disrupting the process.
The CENI and the police promise a peaceful and credible vote
The Kogi State Police have warned Social Democratic Party (SDP) gubernatorial candidate, Murtala Ajaka, and his campaign organization to keep the police out of any political controversy.
/p> In a statement issued yesterday, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP William Ovye-Ayah, urged the party to focus on issue-based campaigns, instead of resorting to cheap blackmail, intimidation and arm-twisting to gain political sympathy from the public. . The statement reads: “The attention of the Kogi State Police Command has been drawn to a false, inflammatory, perfidious, malicious and misleading allegation by one Faruk Adejoh-Audu, Director of Communications of the campaign organization of Governor Murtala Ajaka, according to which the Commissioner of Police, Bethrand Onuoha is planning to attack Ajaka supporters in Kogi. “The command wishes to state categorically that this statement is not only the figment of the imagination of Adejoh-Audu and his political candidate, Yakubu Ajaka, who has mastered the art of political stratagem and brigandage, but that she is completely false, malicious, pretentious and highly mischievous."
MEANWHILE, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the police have assured the Kogi people of peaceful and credible elections. Ovye-Aya and the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr. Gabriel Longpet, gave this assurance during a workshop organized by the International Press Center (IPC) for 26 journalists in Abuja. According to Longpet, the commission has made adequate preparations to consolidate the February 25 and March 18, 2023 polls to ensure that the November 11 gubernatorial election is peaceful, smooth, fair and credible. “We hope to ensure that all results of the gubernatorial election in the 3,508 polling stations spread across 239 wards in the state are transmitted electronically to eliminate any attempt to tamper with manual results during transfer to the polling centers. collection. “We are in synergy with all stakeholders, including security operatives, civil society organizations (CSOs) and the media, to ensure that we get it right on November 11,” he said . Ovye-Aya, on his part, said the police were ready to provide tight security during the Kogi elections to prevent the activities of criminal elements from disrupting the process.
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