he claimed the attack was carried out by thugs loyal to the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Murtala<\/a> Yakubu Ajaka.<\/p>\nHowever, reacting to the incident, Governor Bello confirmed his convoy was struck by the attackers.<\/p>\n
He made the confirmation at the unveiling of The Deputy Governorship candidate of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n
\u201cJust a while ago while I was coming from Abuja, back to my territory, the lion’s den, an antelope crossed the road. Let it be the first and last an antelope will cross the lion’s way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m looking forward to law enforcement agencies to do their job and deal decisively with the situation whereby some miscreants will go and attack GYB’s convoy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He urged the party stakeholders to refrain from reprisal attacks in words and actions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is government and we are in-charge. Any criminal, however your fortress, we will come after you. We will get you we will liquidate you. Kogi State must be free from all forms of crimes and criminality.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you hide under any political disguise, turn criminality to politics, I don’t care. We will deal with you decisively. If you belong to my own political party, and you belong to criminals, I will deal with you.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you belong to any other political party and you’re known for crimes and criminality, we will deal with you,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n
He further urged party faithfuls to be issue-based when campaign for the November 11th governorship election begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Governor Yahaya Bello has reacted to the Saturday’s attack on his convoy while returning to Kogi State from…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84,1201,399,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-7353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-apc","8":"tag-murtala-yakubu-ajaka","9":"tag-sdp","10":"tag-yahaya-bello"},"yoast_head":"\n
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