The Social Democratic Party ( SDP), has raised an alarm over plot to burn the Kogi State Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
SDP in a statement issued on Monday by Isaiah Davies Ijele,
DG New Media, MuriSam Campaign Council, called on relevant security agencies to increase surveillance in order to avert the sinister plot to burn down the office.
“We are calling on the relevant security formations to swing into action to prevent the burning down of that office and to secure all the Electoral materials used in the just concluded Gubernatorial election in Kogi state. They want to burn down the building housing those sensitive materials on the guise of a fire outbreak and with the aim of damaging all evidence of rigging.
“We would like the whole world to know that if anything happen to the sensitive materials as ordered by the court to be inspected by the solicitors of the SDP , Governor Yahaya Bello should be held responsible as the chief security officer of the state.”
Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Campaign Council in Kogi has called on the general public to hold the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the state responsible, if anything untoward happens to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) office in Lokoja.
The APC campaign council also called on security agencies to fortify security around INEC offices given the alarm raised by the SDP.
Mr Kingsley Fanwo, the Director of Media and Publicity/Spokesperson for the APC campaign council, made the calls in a statement issued in Lokoja on Sunday night.
The APC campaign council said the party was convinced that the false alarm raised by the SDP over a purported planned attack on the INEC office was to cover up the party’s sinister motive of torching the INEC office and turning around to blame it on the APC.
