The All Progressive Congress has blame the Social Democratic party regarding the gunmen’s early Friday morning attack on state residence electoral commissioner Dr. Gabriel Longpet.
According to Gistlover, the gunmen broke inside the REC’s home and started shooting intermittently.
The APC campaign council demanded the arrest and prosecution of the Social Democratic party’s gubernatorial candidate during a press conference on Friday.
According to Kingsley Fanwo, Director of Media and Publicity for the APC Campaign Council, there is sufficient proof that Ajaka and his SDP allies are violent and ought to be held accountable for the events that transpired at the REC’s home.
Fanwo stated that the attack was perpetrated days after it alerted the nation of the plans of SDP thugs to attack INEC, adding that “they have finally done their worst by attacking the residence of the Kogi State INEC Commissioner, engaging security agents in a fierce gun battle and eventually burning down some vehicles in the residence and the area.”
Fanwo said, “The same arsonists also had an attempt to burn down the Kogi State Government House foiled by our eagle-eye security agents. The same attempt was foiled at the State APC Secretariat in Lokoja.”
In order to hide the theft they allegedly carried out in Kogi East, where they killed APC supporters “and drove them out of collation centers to forge the results that were eventually trumped by the massive votes of Kogites for the Governor-Elect,” the APC claims that the SDP in the state and their allies are desperate to destroy some documents in INEC.
The SDP candidate and his allies, according to the Campaign Council, were trying to tamper with some INEC documents before giving them to their legal counsel.
In the meantime, the Social Democratic Party refuted any role in the assault on the resident of the REC.
A statement issued on Friday in Lokoja by the Director, New Media, Muri/ Sam Campaign Organisation, David Ijele, stated, “We strongly condemn the assassination attempt on the INEC Resident Commissioner for Kogi state, Dr. Hale Gabriel Longpet, which took place in Lokoja at approximately 2:00 am this morning, December 1st, 2023.
According to him, “Election should not be treated as a war, nor should it be a matter of life and death. If the election was won fairly and transparently, then the legal process should be allowed to run its course without interference. However, it is unacceptable for thugs, in their high numbers yesterday, to be subject to fake protests, insisting that, on no account should forensic teams not be allowed to do their jobs”.
“We are grateful for the timely intervention of the Army, as the man and his family could have been wiped out overnight. The attackers also burnt his vehicles and took other valuables. This kind of behavior is not acceptable in a democratic society,” he added.