SDP Begs Tinubu To End Attacks In Kogi

Social Democratic Party (SDP) yesterday begged President Bola Tinubu to stop the incessant attacks and carnages occasioned by the governorship electioneering in Kogi.

Mr Isaiah Ijele, the director-general, New Media, SDP Campaign Council, made the plea at a news conference in Lokoja on Wednesday.

Ijele said that innocent citizens are being maimed and killed across the state by sponsored political thugs.

He alleged that members and supporters of the SDP governorship candidate, Alhaji Muritala Ajaka, were constantly under attack, allegedly sponsored by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

But the APC Campaign Council’s spokesman, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, had denied sponsoring any attack against SDP supporters in the state.

Ijele, in his recounts, said: “There were gunshots through the night of Tuesday in Anyigba and Ankpa towns where houses and property of innocent SDP supporters were vandalised and destroyed.

“Our campaign coordinator in Anyigba and his family were victims as they were chased away from their house and property destroyed, including his motorcycle.”

Responding to the allegations, Fanwo, the APC spokesperson, debunked the SDP’s claims, saying: “We are a government and our priority is to protect all the people of Kogi State, irrespective of political leanings.”

Fanwo said that all allegations without proof are as good as no allegations.