2023: Kogi APC alleges PDP imported supporters for Atiku rally

NEWS DIGEST — The Kogi State All Progressive Congress campaign council has accused the Peoples Democratic Party of importing a crowd from seven North Central States to Kogi to grace the rally of its presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, held in Lokoja last Saturday.

The Director of Media and Publicity, Kogi State APC Campaign Council, Kingsley Femi Fanwo while addressing a press conference on Monday in Lokoja said the opposition party did not need anyone to tell them that Kogi people have rejected them.

Fanwo, who noted that the PDP had bused in supporters from outside the state to beef up appearances in Lokoja, added that the opposition party had been fittingly reduced to a shadow of itself in Kogi State over the last seven years.

“What they said would be an overflow rally that would bring our city to a standstill for the day barely registered on the radar of hardworking Kogites. The innocents who did turn out for them in the vain hope of hearing anything which might persuade them to reevaluate their poor opinion of the PDP left reinforced in their disdain for people whose stint in government brought their state, nay, country, to their knees.

“Even their diehard members who came in expectations of the usual largesse associated with the party in her heyday became dispirited when the lies started.

“Dismayed by the poor turnout, the PDP resorted to theatrics. It rolled out expired individuals who had been expunged from the ranks of the APC for their unsavoury deeds and characters, and proceeded to canonise them,” he stated.

According to him, the presidential rally turned into a farce when people like the former Deputy Governor of the State, Elder Simeon Achuba and the former Speaker of the State Assembly, Alfa Imam were repackaged for Atiku as Kogi APC stalwarts who were decamping to the PDP at the rally.