Eagle eyed security men on Sunday, in Lokoja arrested a 28 year old man attempting to plant ammunition on the campaign train of the Kogi State Governorship Candidate of the Social Democratic Party(SDP) Alhaji Muritala Yakubu Ajaka.
The incidence which occurred at about 4;pm.at Goshen Hotel, Ganaja Lokoja while a tumultuous crowd was waiting to recieve Ajaka who was returning from a campaign event in Kogi East.
The suspect, Jerry Isaac said to be from Bassa LGA of the state was arrested with two cartoons of bullet cartridges hidden amongst crates of minerals in a tricycle otherwise known as Keke NAPEP. He had pretended to be a delivery man making supplies to the Hotel.
When Plain clothes policemen from the C Division of the Kogi State Police Command manning the Hotel stopped the suspect to allow a search of the items, two other passengers of the tricyle suddenly took to their heels.
This reinforced the suspicion of the officers who held unto Mr Isaac and took the trunk of the tricycle apart.
When the ammunition was discovered supporters waiting to recieve Ajaka attempted to mete jungle justice on Isaac but where restrained by the policemen
The suspect was whisked away to the C Division Police Station at 200 Units Housing Estate, Gadumo Lokoja from where he was said to have been transferred to the police headquarters.
The Murtala Yakubu Ajaka Campaign had for weeks been sounding alarm of plots to plant incriminating evidence on its campaign train by the Kogi State Government of Mr Yahaya Bello.
The campaign is therefore calling on the Kogi State Command to get to the root of the mission of the suspect.
The campaign hereby warns that it will go to any length legally allowed to ensure that subterfuges like the Lokoja incident are no longer directed at its candidate.
The campaign warns that nothing short of a transparent and thorough investigation into the breach will be accepted by it.
SIGNED:
Faruk Adejoh-Audu
Director, Communications
Muritala Yakubu Ajaka Campaign Organization
August 13, 2023.