Kogi 2023: Police pledge impartiality, dismiss assault allegation

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Kogi 2023: Police pledge impartiality, dismiss assault allegation

The Kogi State Police Command has promised a level playing field for all political parties taking part in the November 11 governorship election in the state.

The command also denied knowledge of any planned attack on the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Alhaji Muritala Ajaka, describing such as fake, incendiary, perfidious, malicious, and misleading.

A statement issued on Monday by the force spokesperson in the state, SP William Aya, read: “The attention of the Kogi State Police Command has been drawn to a fake, incendiary, perfidious, malicious, and misleading allegation making the rounds by one Faruk Adejoh-Audu, Director Communications, Murtala Yakubu Ajaka Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation, to the effect that the Commissioner of Police, Bethrand Onuoha plans to attack Ajaka supporters in Kogi LGA.

The command stated that it “wishes to emphatically and categorically state that the statement is not only the figment of the imagination of Faruk Adejoh-Audu and his political candidate, Ajaka, who has mastered the art of political gimmickry and brigandage, but totally false, malicious, pretentious, and highly mischievous.

“The Commissioner of Police, who, upon assumption of duty one month ago, has so far demonstrated a high level of professionalism by providing a level playing field for all political parties and their candidates to operate in the state, should not be dragged into politics.”