Hold Yahaya Bello Responsible If Anything Untoward Happens To Me-Kogi SDP Governorship Candidate

The candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the Kogi state Novemeber 21 Governorship election, Alhaji Muritala Yakubu Ajaka, has asked Nigerians to hold Kogi state Governor, Yahaya Bello, responsibility if anything untoward happens to him and or any member of his family.

Ajaka made the plea Thursday evening while speaking on the Channels televion programme, Politics Today.

Ajaka who was reacting to his rift with the governor, expalined that the latter is after him given his (Ajaka’s) growing popularity among the electorates across the state

A former member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, before defecting the SDP, Ajaka has been at daggers drawn with Gov Bello and the candidate of the APC, Usman Ododo, following the controversial outcome of the April primaries.

He expalined that he would not have left the APC where he was a member of the National Working Committee, NWC, if Bello and the party had given the ticket to a candiadte from Kogi West Senatorial District.

“In all fairness, if Yahaya Bello is sincere with the people of Kogi State, if he had given it to somebody from the West, of course, we will tell our people to wait. We would have flowed along that line.

“Even when the East was doing this governorship back to back, it has never been the same local government.

“If Yahaya Bello had given it to somebody from the West, of course, it is natural for us to align with that person but for you to give the ticket to somebody from the same ward with you? That can’t stand.

“If the APC had given the ticket to somebody from the West. Of course, the rest of us would have talk to our people in the East for it to go round,” he pointed out.

He explained further that he had already forwarded a letter to the threat to his life to the federal government via the National security Adviser and the Inspector General of Police over the matter. 

“I have already written to the federal government through the national security adviser and the IGP that if anything happens to me or any member of family or campaign team, the state government should held responsible. 

“They should enforce to them (state government) to allow freedom of movement and speech in the State”.