Kogi Decides: Yahaya Bello has ordered my assassination – Natasha Akpoti

The Social Democratic Party, SDP, governorship candidate in Kogi State, Natasha Akpoti has alleged that Yahaya Bello has ordered her assassination.

Akpoti made this revelation on Monday morning on her official Twitter page.

She wrote: “Gov Yahaya Bello has ordered for my assassination.”

🚨RED ALERT 🚨

Gov Yahaya Bello of Kogi st has ordered for my assassination.@PoliceNG @EUinNigeria @hrw @USEmbassyAbuja @UKinNigeria @MBuhari @ProfOsinbajo @OfficialAPCNg @OfficialPDPNig @DeleMomodu @realFFK @PeterPsquare @seunokin @AIT_Online @obyezeks @elrufai
Natasha Akpoti

— Natasha Akpoti (@NatashaAkpoti) November 18, 2019

Akpoti on Sunday called for the cancellation of the ongoing gubernatorial election in Kogi Central and part of Lokoja, the state capital.


Akpoti claimed that “what happened in Kogi Central and other parts of the state was a far cry from a credible election,” hence the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, should cancel the elections and conduct a rerun.

She made the call in a statement she personally signed and issued on Sunday.

According to Akpoti: “Ballot boxes were destroyed and burnt in Okene, Adavi, Ajaokuta and Ogori Magongo and Okehi Local government areas and other parts of the state.