PDP presidential campaign council condemns new wave of attacks on members in Kogi

By Abubakar Yusuf

The Director General of the Presidential Campaign Council, PCC of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Kogi State, His Excellency, Arc.Yomi Awoniyi, along with other leaders of the party, condemned in no uncertain terms, the renewed spate of violent attacks on supporters of the PDP in the state.

According to statement by Head, Media Team, PCC Kogi State, Austyn Ochu, this condemnation followed the recent attacks by those suspected to be thugs of the APC whose action was a dress rehearsal by the sponsored thugs to unleash mayhem on the PDP supporters.

Ochu said it was calculated to cause voters’ apathy on the day of the election on the 25th of February, 2023.

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“The latest orchestrated violence took place in the suburb of Abocho in Dekina LGA on Wednesday 16h February, 2023, and in Ihima, Okehi LGA on thursday 17th of February, 2023, both strongholds of Austin Okai, PDP candidate for House of Reps., Dekina/Biraidu Federal Constituency and Barr. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of the Central Senatorial District, respectively.

“The actions of the thugs in a suburb of Abocho, who inflicted injuries on their victims with guns and matchets, and the coordinated attack on party members who were holding ward meetings in Ihima leading to the destruction of their property, confirms the speculation in our previous Press Releases that there is an organised attempt to gag the opposition by unleashing violence on the unsuspecting PDP members on the eve of the elections.

“It is therefore instructive that the State Security apparatus must intensify surveillance on such black spots as Dekina, Okene, Okehi, Adavi, Olamaboro and such other places where these thugs are being used as instruments in the hands of unpopular candidates, to intimidate the opposition prior to the February General Election,” Ochu said.

The PCC call on the Security Agencies once again to swing into action immediately to arrest those who are known to be behind the recent violence in Abocho and Okehi in order to bring them to book and dissuade further unwarranted attack on law abiding PDP members in the state.

The party assured party faithful and supporters that the party was prepared more than ever before to confront the challenges ahead with equanimity and would not submit to acts of intimidation.

The PDP said it had resolved to do everything within the ambits of the law to protect her members from being disenfranchised in the next week General Elections.