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PDP Raises Alarm Over Violence In Kogi
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders in Kogi state, on Thursday raised an alarm over the regime of violence and total breakdown of law in the State.
The PDP stakeholders have, however, called on the National Peace Committee under the leadership of General Abdulsalami Abubakar, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Inspector General of Police, the National Security Adviser, the Service Chiefs, the Civil Society Organizations and the International Community to pay special attention to the veritable flash point, which Kogi has become ahead of the 2019 election.
Blaming the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the dangerous trend, while speaking on behalf of the state PDP, the State Chairman of the party, Engr. Samuel Ohotu, said, “the Kogi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is constrained to bring to the attention of the Nigerian public and the international community the ominously dangerous security situation in the State which is attributable to the ruthlessness and excessive intolerance of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), which has degenerated into home grown insecurity and State-sponsored violence.
“This has led to a worrisome pattern of intimidation, harassment, unprovoked disruption of political meetings and gatherings which invariably involves the infliction of injuries to our party members and innocent citizens.
“It also involves the destruction of campaign materials of opposition party candidates like posters, banners and bill boards all over the State.
“These incidents of violence and thuggery have become more brazen, dangerous and rampant in all the three senatorial districts of the State in the last few weeks.
“The foregoing is a recipe for chaos and a flagrant attempt to circumscribe our right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association as well as our right to take part in the government of our country as guaranteed by Articles 20 and 21 of the United Nations Fundamental Human Rights, Articles 10 and 13 of the African Chartter on Human and Peoples’ Rights as well as Section 14 (1) (c) and Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).”
Analysing the trend the worrisome situation has taken, the PDP State Chairman listed the violents the APC government has committed against the PDP in the state.
“What started like rumours of a grand design to exclude all other political Parties from the political space by making it impossible even to campaign is now assuming a frightening reality as can be seen from the following well documented acts of violence and thuggery:
“On March 6, 2018 and July 31, 2018 Senator Ahmed Ogembe’s empowerment programmes were violently disrupted by armed APC thugs who beat up the would be beneficiaries leaving many of them with serious injuries.
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