Press Statement

Kogi APC Governorship Campaign Council

12/11/2019

Natasha Akpoti : A Constant Threat to Peace

In the last few hours, the social media has been agog with Natasha Akpoti’s characteristic gallery show of falsehood as she alleged that APC thugs stopped her from accessing the venue of a peace parley organized to ensure peaceful poll in Kogi on Saturday.
As a Campaign Council, it is our responsibility to our teeming party members and supporters to set the record straight. Here are the facts:

1. The All Progressives Congress does not have nor need thugs to win elections. Thuggery as far as we are concerned is antithetical to the security policy of the present administration in the state. Since 2016, Kogi has developed a security architecture that has no place for violence and other forms of criminalities.
2. It was on record that Natasha came late to the venue of the parley. And instead of explaining her situation to the security aides of the Inspector General of Police, she decided to wrestle with them in her characteristic combative and aggressive manner. She won’t listen to the explanation of the security aides that the program was already underway. Her thugs started attacking the security guards at the venue, a situation which prompted them to fire tear-gas to restore normalcy.
3. It is therefore false, malicious and unacceptable for the embattled Natasha to claim she was attacked by APC supporters when she was the one that ordered her thugs to attack security agents.
4. Natasha’s shameful conduct today has confirmed our earlier stance that she was not interested in the election, but in tormenting the peace loving people of Kogi State. If her thugs could dare the security aides of the Inspector General of Police, how safe are the defenseless people of Kogi State in the hands of the fighting Tigress?
5. We call on security agencies to properly profile Natasha’s abhorrence to constitutionalism with the hope that she could be made to act within the arc of the law ahead of Saturday’s election.
6. We urge our supporters to remain calm in the face of wanton aggressiveness and attacks by Natasha and her dangerous thugs who almost disrupted today’s peace parley in Lokoja. As a party, we are committed to the accord. We love our people and maintain the stance of Governor Yahaya Bello that his ambition doesn’t deserve the blood of anyone.
7. We come in peace but we mean business. Let’s Do More.

Signed: Kingsley Fanwo
Chairman, Media and Publicity Committee