POLITICS: TRIBUNAL SECRETARY SAYS GUNMEN STOLE KOGI GOVERNORSHIP PETITION - POLICE

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David Mike, the secretary of the Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, confirmed that gunmen took the applications of four parties contesting All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Usman Ododo’s election victory on November 11, 2023.

According to William Aya, the state police spokeswoman, this is the case.

Aya said in a statement on Wednesday that Mike had told the police that he had been attacked on Monday while travelling to his office at the High Court Complex in the state capital of Lokoja by a group of armed individuals.

According to the tribunal secretary, he was present at the scene with two other officials.

“All of them (gunmen) surrounded and blocked him (Mike) as he attempted to reverse,” the police said in their statement.

“That he saw about seven hooded men all heavily armed and dressed in black attire who shot severally into the air and dragged him and his two other colleagues out of their car, ransacked the car and made away with all the documents including Petitions filed by four (4) Parties namely Action Alliance (AA), Action People’s Party (APP), Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP)/two (2) Record Books/a Bag containing his personal items.”

According to the police, the state’s commissioner of police has launched an investigation into the incident.

Gabriel Longpet, the state’s resident electoral commissioner, was the target of a gunman’s attack last Friday.