SDP’s Ajaka says killed Kogi crime kingpin Owo Bala was APC ‘tough man’

The candidate of the Social Democratic Occasion, SDP in Kogi governorship election, Muritala Ajaka, has said Kabir Owo Bala, the alleged chief of felony gang who modified into killed in Ejule workers of the advise on Thursday modified into former ‘tricky man’ of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and modified into as soon as granted pardon after he modified into arrested by Governor Yahaya Bello.

The Police had alleged that the deceased modified into a felony kingpin to blame for quite lots of killings in the advise, in conjunction with the raze of PDP Ladies chief in 2020.

Alternatively, while condemning Thursday’s killing of Bala and one Mrs Atima Abdulahi in Ejule, by regulations enforcement agents, Ajaka describing it as “extra judicial.”

Ajaka laid the blame for the raze on the door step of electoral violence by agents of the advise, calling for thorough investigation into the killings.

Within the assertion issued by his Director of Communications, Faruk Adejoh-Audu, Murtala argued that contrary to the toga of criminal activity being hung on his head, Owo may perhaps presumably per chance luxuriate in killed for not too long up to now altering political his allegiance.

“The Murtala Yakubu Ajaka Gubernatorial Marketing campaign Group is insecure by the legitimate confirmation of the Kogi Relate Commissioner of Police, Mr Akeem Yusuf that the extra judicial execution of an All Peoples Congress (APC) Chieftain, Mallam Kabir Okwo Bala and a housewife, Mrs Atima Abdullahi by gunmen unleashed on the Ejule Community of Ofu Local Authorities Relate in the early hours of this morning modified into masterminded by the Relate Authorities of Alhaji Yahaya Bello.

“We’re conscious that the late Okwo modified into accused of several felonies by the advise commissioner of police after his execution but we completely reject the usage of those allegations rightly or wrongly as excuse to cancel a citizen who may perhaps presumably per chance without issues were arrested and prosecuted over time if indeed the advise govt ever regarded as him a felony.

“However it’s far price pointing out that as admitted by Police Commissioner, Okwo modified into free of penal advanced in 2018 by Governor Yahaya Bello on the grounds that he modified into not a felony but a political prisoner jailed by the PDP.

“It is therefore uncommon that after the invasion of Ejule last night in which his family dwelling and several other diverse properties had been burnt down by advise agents, Okwo modified into without note declared a felony.

“However the silly man now declared a felony modified into a customary visitor at Bello’s Lokoja Authorities Condominium the place he modified into identified to were treated as royalty.

“Most certainly the Kogi Relate Authorities shall be gracious adequate story to the of us and the world how a man previously declared innocent and granted advise pardon by the identical Governor Bello degenerated into such contaminated crimes to the level of undertaking gun battles with the Nigerian Navy extra than one three hundred and sixty five days up to now yet there modified into never any are trying and arrest and prosecute him.

“Rather in accordance with the commissioner he wanted to be appealed to and pampered to free up AK47 Rifles he allegedly seized from the Navy in a firefight.

“Truth is that the place of living for this extra-judicial Killing modified into hatched after the late Okwo brazenly renounced his give a enhance to for Mr Yahaya Bello in a now viral video and declared he’s potentially not supporting his candidate in the approaching November 11th Governorship Elections.”

Adejoh-Audu said cases of organising opponents for arrests or assault are turning into customary in the advise and educated the Federal govt to intervene.

“We completely condemned this desperation and bloodletting which has grow to be the hall stamp of Mr Bello’s politics in Kogi Relate and we charm to the Federal Authorities to rein in this individual to place the lives of electorate whose handiest crime is that they dare to exercise their democratic rights to reject him.”