The National Democratic Front (NDF) says the People’s Democratic Party in Kogi State lacks the justification to attack Governor Yahaya Bello.
The group made this known today at a press conference in Abuja in reaction to the party’s criticism of Bello.
In his address, NDF’s national president, Dr Omale Ben, said the PDP might be working towards causing chaos in next year’s general elections.
“The National Democratic Front (NDF) has followed with bemusement the call by the Kogi State Chapter of the People Democratic Party (PDP) for the retired General Abubakar Abdulsalami-led National Peace Committee to document the state government as deploying violence,” the statement said.
“Our law enforcement agencies can attest to the number of terrorist cells they have dismantled, in collaboration with the Yahaya Bello-led state government. During the period PDP held was in power in the state, bloody clashes among disparate groups were the order of the day. Most recently, a certain politician has been in the news for ramping up efforts to revive these dismantled cells. The party has nothing to campaign for the forthcoming elections and their only gimmick going forward is to blackmail Governor Yahaya Bello.
“The alarm they raised about the governor being an enabler of political violence is a smokescreen to conceal the true extent of damage they have done in the state and by extension all over Nigeria in their bid to return to power, It is for this that they came up with the laughable allegation that Governor Bello wants to instigate a crisis.”
The NDF, therefore, challenged PDP in Kogi to “disprove the many laudable projects that Governor Yahaya Bello’s numerous efforts at peacebuilding”.
Ben, however, warned that the “PDP shall be held responsible for any threat to the peaceful and successful conduct of the 2023 General Elections.”
