Olu Samuel,Lokoja

The Social Democratic party, SDP has alleged that there is a plan to burn down the Kogi State headquarter of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Lokoja, the state capital.

A statement issued by the party’s Director, New Media of the Muri Sam campaign council , David Ijele on Sunday stated that there were grand plans to burn down the office where sensitive materials relating to the last November Election were stored.

He therefore called on the security agencies to swing into action to prevent the plans from materialising.

The statement read
“This is to notify the security institutions of the state, the media and general public of plans to burn down the office of the Kogi State Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

It has come to our notice via grave vines that there is an urgent need for security to be beefed around the Kogi State INEC office in order to avert the sinister plot to burn down the office by mandate bandits.

We are calling on the relevant security formations to swing into action to prevent the burning down of that office and to secure all the Electoral materials used in the just concluded Gubernatorial election in Kogi state.

According to him,”They want to burn down the building housing those sensitive materials on the guise of a fire outbreak and with the aim of damaging all evidences of rigging.

We will like the whole world to know that if anything happen to the sensitive materials as ordered by the court to be inspected by the solicitors of the SDP , Governor Yahaya Bello should be held responsible as the chief security officer of the state.” He said.

In a swift reaction however,the APC campaign council’s Director of media and publicity of the Ododo/Oyibo campaign council, Kingsley Fanwo said that the SDP should be held responsible if anything untoward happens to the INEC office in the state.

Fanwo, said the party was convinced that the false alarm raised by the SDP over a purported planned attack on the INEC office was to cover up the party’s sinister motive.

He said it is rather the plan of the SDP to raze down the INEC office and turn around to blame it on the APC “as they know they have no evidence to substantiate their characteristic lies about the credibility of the Kogi State Governorship Poll that has been adjudged as the best in the democratic history of the state.