The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu, has raised an alarm over what he alleged to be an attempt to bomb his house and other property.
According to the head of the media of the Prince Abubakar Audu Campaign Organisation, Dr. Tom Ohikere, who spoke on behalf of Audu, attempt on Audu’s house was made over the weekend.
He said in Lokoja today that hired hoodlums attempted to bomb a house and petrol station belonging to the former governor, adding that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was also planning to eliminate the leaders of the APC in the state ahead of the November 21 gubernatorial poll.
Ohikere said that the hoodlums were apprehended at Ejule in the eastern axis of the state by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
This was even as the state Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Ojukwu, had on Friday paraded about eight suspects, whom he said were planning to disrupt the forthcoming governorship election in the state.
Ohikere, however, revealed that investigations showed that Prince Audu and his property were the major targets, even as he queried the true identities of those paraded by the police.
He alleged that they were not the same suspects who were arrested at Ejule with dangerous weapons and charms.
He alleged that Ojukwu never gave the complete details concerning the mission of the suspects.
The Abubakar Audu campaign spokesman therefore warned the PDP in the state to forget using any undemocratic means of remaining in power, stressing that the electorates are tired of being deceived for so long and have decided to vote for positive change in the coming governorship election.
Ohikere, a one-time Commissioner for Information in the state, enjoined law enforcement agents to be vigilant and proactive as the state moves towards the next dispensation, insisting that anti-democratic forces are hell bent on destabilising the state.
He also called on the supporters of the APC in the state to remain calm and law abiding, even as he expressed confidence that the PDP-led administration in the state would be sent packing in the forthcoming governorship poll. [myad]
