The Peoples Democratic Party has raised the alarm over an alleged conspiracy by the Kogi State government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to cause harm to the lives, reputations and ambitions of its candidates ahead of the 2023 elections. According to the PDP in a letter to the police, Army and State Security Service (Department of State Services), the party’s candidates have faced an undue and unprecedented level of persecution, intimidation and attacks against their persons as well as their close political associates since their emergence.
The party added that it had uncovered plans to plant guns, ammunition and other incriminating weapons at the home of its Kogi Central senatorial candidate, Natasha Hadiza Akpoti Uduaghan.The Peoples Democratic Party has raised the alarm over an alleged conspiracy by the Kogi State government and the All Progressives Congress to cause harm to the lives, reputations and ambitions of its candidates ahead of the 2023 elections.
In May, Akpoti won the PDP primary election for the 2023 Kogi Central Senatorial District, to go against the ruling APC’s Abubakar Ohere, among others. “Through her various cohorts and political thugs, the Kogi State government and Kogi APC have resorted to underhanded schemes in order to thwart the ambition of our candidates, whose only crime is harkening to the voice of their people to give them a much-desired effective representation at the National Assembly.
“In view of the foregoing, our party reasonably believes that the lives of our candidates and those of their family members, their political associates and members of the PDP in Kogi State are under serious threat from Kogi State government and its thugs.
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