PDP To INEC: Give Direct Warning To Yahaya Bello, To Refrain From Violence In

By Funmi Olakunle

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Thursday has charged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to issue a direct warning to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State and the All Progressives Congress, APC to desist from violence in the run-up to the November 16 governorship election.

The party in a statement said that it was aware that Governor Bello was already jittery on account of his alleged failure in office as it cautioned INEC not to use the cover of violence allegedly being stoked by the governor to rig the election.

Affirming that it was fully behind the people of Kogi State, the PDP in the statement issued by Kola Ologbondinyan, its spokesman, urged the commission to “issue a direct warning to Governor Yahaya Bello and the All Progressives Congress, APC, to desist from any act of violence in the election, as the people of Kogi state are at alert and fully prepared to confront the governor and his party on all fronts.”

“Our party is already aware of the heinous plots by jittery Yahaya Bello to orchestrate violence, having realized that there is no way he can win in this election.

“Our message to the sinking governor is that such cannot save him from a crushing defeat at the poll.

“While the PDP do not support or preach violence, it must be noted that our party is standing behind the people of Kogi state in their determination never to allow anybody to intimidate or suppress them.

“The PDP wants INEC and Governor Yahaya Bello to note that the November 16 election is a determined march by the people against a suppressive, cruel, chaotic, sadistic, acrimonious and inhuman administration.

“It is a determined march against acute poverty, hunger and starvation, fear, general low life and despondency in the state, which Governor Yahaya Bello and the APC represent.

“The Kogi election will mark a definite and inevitable triumph of light over darkness, freedom over suppression, prosperity over poverty, justice over impunity, peace over violence, progress over stagnation,

democracy over personality cult and self-centeredness. No amount of intimidation can stop the people in this resolve.”

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