SDP To Kogi CP: You Are A Bias Police Officer

..Expresses Lack Of Confidence In His Probe

The Kogi SDP governor campaign Council of Muritala Yakabu Ajaka and Hon. Sam Ranti Abenemi has on Tuesday accused the Kogi State Police commissioner, CP Onuoha Bertrand of being complacent in investigating the political rift between the party and the ruling APC in the state.

Addressing Journalists at a media conference by the party in Lokoja, the Kogi East Director General of the campaign Campaign Council, Alhaji Hassan Enape, said the Police Commissioner’s Press statement on the unrest at Koton Karfe, was full of contradictions.

“The Commissioner of Police in his recent statement signed by the Police Public Relation Officer, William Aya, said he has set up an investigating panel to root out the cause of the political fight between the APC and our party, but again went ahead in the statement to indict our governorship candidate, Alhaji Muritala Ajaka as the conveyor of crises also accused him of moving about with thug.”

“This statement by the CP has clearly exposed him as being biased even before the investigative panel commenced their job. We want to categorically state that we have no confidence in the so-called panel constituted by the police commissioner.”

While calling on the Inspector General of Police, disband the Mr Betrand’s constituted panel and set up his own independent investigative panel, Enape posited that a true investigation on the Koton Karfe political upheaval will expose the true conveyors of crises and their collaborators.

Alhaji Enape however clarified that the SDP governorship candidate has zero tolerance for thuggery, and has no hand in the crises that took place at Koton Karfe.

Reacting to the claim that the SDP did not get police permission for the Koton Karfe rally, Enape said the campaign council had earlier sought the permission of the Police and DSS through a letter, which was granted by the two security agencies.

“Here is the copy of the letter we sent to the Police and DSS and they endorsed it and granted us, we will make copies available to you all.”

“We wish to state categorically that it is not true that the Commissioner of Police and other relevant authorities in the state were not aware of the SDP rally in KotonKarfe on that fateful day. What is true is that the APC ambushed the good people of Koton-Karfe to cause panic and deter their resolve for the candidacy of Murtala Yakubu Ajaka. This they failed to achieve because, after the attacks and destruction, the people still came out to receive Murtala Yakubu Ajaka, confirming their support for him.”

“On the sad issue of Koton Karfe, the SDP and her supporters were peaceful, uncompromising, and law-abiding but were wickedly attacked by thugs working for the APC”.

“There is video evidence of the peaceful gathering of SDP supporters before APC thugs invaded the venue with guns and machetes, destroying the venue, injuring our supporters, and shooting sporadically at our convoy. Contrary to the position of Mr. Fanwo and the APC, it was our supporters that were attacked. It is already evident that the APC unleashed terror on the peace-loving people of Koton Karfe because of their love for Murtala Yakubu Ajaka. The unanswered question is what is an APC supporter doing in an SDP rally?

“There is no time that our principal either privately or publicly called any ethnic group “a common enemy”. The video clip of his outing on Channels Television is on the internet for everyone to listen to and watch. In that interview, Murtala Yakubu Ajaka harped on “Governor Yahaya Bello as the common enemy of the people. Indeed, he is the common enemy of the people because he deliberately divided the Kogi political environment across ethnic lines,” Enape added.