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Kogi PDP Ticket: Gov Idris' in-law in
'gun-point' registration scandal
Citizen Reporter
Mon Sep 12,2011
Newsdiaryonline
Gov Ibrahim Idris
The battle for the governorship ticket of the People's
Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi has taken a very dangerous
dimension as one
retired Captain Idris Wada and four others allegedly invaded
Odu1 ward at Dekina
demanding for the party register.
We reliably
gathered that the retired Captain who is an in-law to Governor
Idris of Kogi state and being touted as his (the governor's
anointed candidate,
is yet to be a registered member of the party allegedly stormed
the ward at about 10 pm on Sunday night with armed men in mufti
asking for the Ward
Chairman of the party Mr. Ijeje Utonu and the Secretary Mr.
Hassan Akeji.
The ward Chairman disclosed further that the retired Captain and
his armed men ordered them to produce the party Ward register
and register him as member of the party.
According to Mr Ijeje, pandemonium broke
when the retired Captain was denied access to the
register . He got exasperated allegedly
ordered his men to shoot into the air in order to intimidate
them.
Some of the villagers who were confused about
the situation ran to the bush for safety as the case was
formerly reported to the Police station at Anyigba.
Meanwhile the PDP Odu one ward Chairman, while speaking with
newsmen on Monday called on the Federal Government and the
leadership of the party to immediately investigate the ugly
situation.
According to him their lives and that of their immediate
families is serious danger as the team has given them between
now and Wednesday to include their names in the party register
or face the consequence.
"It is worrisome that people who want to lead us will display
absolute lack of faith in the rule of law,the constitution of
our party and due process. This resort to threat and violence
all in a bid to be registered in our great party PDP just few
days to the rescheduled primary election is to say the least
antithetical to all known tenets of democracy. We call on the
Federal Government and indeed the Inspector General of Police to
constitute a high powered investigation into this clandestine
move to violently undermine our democracy" Ijeje concluded.
In another development, the Kogi PDP Youth Vanguard led by one
Adejoh Samuel at a media parley in Lokoja has
urged Governor Ibrahim
Idris to purge himself of an unholy calculation to impose his
in-law and business partner on the people of the State. But the
Governor on Saturday told journalists that he had no anointed
candidate.
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