Senator Elect Natasha Akpoti Rejects Governor Yahaya Bello’s Congratulatory Message, Accuses Him Of Plotting To Eliminate Her

Senator elect Natasha Akpoti rejects Governor Yahaya Bello’s congratulatory message accuses Him of plotting to eliminate her.

By Daily Hint Reporter

The Senator-Elect of Kogi Central, Natasha H Akpoti-Uduaghan, has accused Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, of a plot to harm her during the senatorial election that took place in March.

She made the allegation on Tuesday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today

“I heard guns; I had his henchmen shoot at my vehicle; I have video evidence of that,” she said.

“It was the immediate past; they were adorned in APC shirts and one of them was Amoka; he was a returning officer for Okehi local government. He led the group of ten men to shoot at me, I have the video captured in that.”

Akpoti-Uduaghan expressed concerns regarding the governor’s recent statement where he acknowledged her victory as the duly elected candidate for Kogi Central.

She criticized the governor’s remarks, highlighting the inconsistency of endangering people’s lives and labeling it as the ‘beauty of democracy.’

“He said this is the beauty of politics; this is not the beauty of politics. You don’t endanger people, you don’t set out to kill people, you don’t destroy properties, and you don’t frustrate the electoral process just because you want your candidate to win and call it ‘the beauty of democracy’,” she said.

Akpoti-Uduaghan additionally alleged that the governor deliberately disrupted essential routes within the state to impede the seamless progress of the election.

“Apart from that, the governor thwarts roads. The governor, a day before the election, cut five – he dug gullies, cutting five roads. That was just to prevent the election from taking place, probably endangering my life,” she added.

“It was a day to the election but thank God we had the payloaders and I went all night, we had to cover the gullies so that the election could take place.”