SDP accuses Bello, security chiefs of fresh plot to abduct, imprison Ajaka ahead of Kogi guber

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

The Alhaji Muritala Yakubu Ajaka Campaign Organization said it uncovered a ‘dastardly conspiracy’ between some security chiefs in Kogi State to abduct the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Governorship Candidate, Alhaji Muritala Yakubu Ajaka to Lokoja and frame him with trump-up charges, with the aim of clamping him into detention and possibly assassinate him.
A statement issued yesterday by the Director of Communications, Faruk Adejoh-Audu, said details of the plan which began manifesting on Tuesday included hastily arraigning Alhaji Ajaka before a Lokoja Court to legally seal the plot to incarcerate him indefinitely.
The statement said “In furtherance of the plot the State Commissioner of Police Hakeem Adeshina Yusuf who had obstinately refused to investigate our petition of attempted assassination against Mr Bello and his band of thugs and gunmen who attacked our motorcade on June 3, 2023 is now stalking our candidate at the behest of Mr Bello to accuse him of been the aggressor in the attack.
“Some gun men in Mufti appeared at an address on Khartoum Street in Wuse, Abuja at about 12:30pm Tuesday claiming they have been detailed by Mr Yusuf to arrest Alhaji Ajaka for attempted assassination, gun possession and terrorism as a result of the same attack carried out by Mr Bello and his gunmen.
“Already Mr Bello has put some of his friendly media editors and social media influencers on cue to disparage the SDP Candidate through stories and commentaries that will portray the candidate as a violent man.
“These elaborate plot are an obvious manifestation to stop the escalating popularity of the SDP Candidate in the November 11, Governorship Elections.
“Mr Bello is a Governor whose administration has gained notoriety for violence, framing up opponents and compromising the institutions of the polity to gain advantage in elections.
“Alhaji Ajaka has no record of violence whatsoever at anytime in his political career, but in the last four months, the candidate, members of his campaign team have been at the receiving end of State violence from Federal security agents who have been obviously compromised to torment political rivals of Mr Bello.
“We have cried out to all the relevant agencies of state to rein in Mr Bello and get him to play by the rules of engagement of electioneering to no avail. Where in the word is an interested party in an election allowed the pleasure to arrest opponents and clamp them into detention to prevent them from campaigning.”
The statement also said this plot was hatched after a campaign outing by Alhaji Ajaka at Idah, during which a mammoth crowd never before recorded in history of rallies in Kogi State, came to receive him.
It said in the last Presidential and National Assembly Elections, Governor Bello took several bizarre measures to intimidate the then main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state by deploying earth moving equipment to dig craters on several streets leading to polling units in the Central Senatorial District of Kogi State.
“The intimidation was so effective that the PDP had to cancel its campaign flag off-rally in the said Central Senatorial District.
“Two weeks ago, he procured security agents in the state to extra judicially execute Mallam Kabir Bala aka Okwo, a thug he freed from prison and unleashed on defenceless citizens of the state at the dawn of the 2019 Elections. Okwo was among about 20 thugs he freed from custody across the state to use for violence electoral mayhem in 2019.
“The moment Okwo was executed Mr Yusuf the police commissioner accused him of several heinous felonies. Yet Okwo was a revered member of the party who was even Inaugurated by Mr Bello as the Ofu LGA Coordinator of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Council”, the statement.