Kogi APC Seeks Justice For Member Killed By Thugs

Kogi State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said it will seek justice for one of its supporters killed in Anyigba during the just-concluded governorship election in the state.

The spokesperson of the Kogi APC Campaign Council, Kingsley Fanwo, revealed this while addressing a press conference yesterday in Lokoja.

The party affirmed that the death of their member in Anyigba would have been avoidable if they had allowed the electoral process without trying to disenfranchise anyone.

It said, “The resounding victory has strengthened the social contract between the APC and the people of Kogi. It has also upscaled the onus of responsibility on us to continue to provide first class schools, health institutions, road infrastructure and many others that the current administration in the state has been doing over the past seven years and nine months.

“We salute our party members, especially in Kogi East, where our opponents deployed thugs to deprive our members of their franchise. A member of our party was gunned down in Anyigba for standing his ground to choose the Kogi Agenda over the sectional and divisive agenda of a candidate who had no interest in the state at heart. Yet they went out with the evil narrative of ballot box snatching without providing proof. May his soul continue to rest in perfect peace.

“Every vote we secured in Kogi East represents hundreds of voters who were harassed, injured and even had their houses burnt for their political beliefs. You are the true heroes of democracy. Those who waged terrorism on our democracy out of desperation to make the impossible possible are today moving from one TV station to another to cry foul and create a contrary impression when unbiased observers from far and wide have described the election as the freest and most peaceful since the creation of Kogi State.

“His usual way of blackmailing people in authority hasn’t changed. Personally attacking the INEC chairman and saying his children should be ashamed of him is uncalled for, unethical and immoral. 

Are Dino Melaye’s children proud of his physical combats on the floor of the National Assembly? Are Dino’s children proud of him? Dino Melaye was never in the race for the governorship. The perennial contestant was in it for business and we do not see his allegations as anything more than the ranting of a thoroughly rejected political jobber,” Fanwo said.