Edo attack: ‘Bad omen’ – PDP chieftain, Ogidi demands thorough probe

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Emmanuel Ogidi, has called for a broad probe into the caller onslaught connected African Democratic Congress, ADC, members successful Edo State.

Speaking to newsmen connected Thursday, Ogidi described the caller hostilities involving salient governmental figures arsenic a “bad omen” for the nation’s democracy, particularly up of the 2027 wide elections.

He said it was unacceptable for the 2023 Labour Party statesmanlike candidate, Peter Obi, erstwhile National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, and different leaders of the ADC to beryllium subjected to specified attack.

The PDP chieftain urged President Bola Tinubu to nonstop information agencies to instantly analyse reported threats to the lives of ADC members and guarantee that those down specified incidents were prosecuted.

According to him, decisive steps indispensable beryllium taken to forestall a recurrence and to shield Nigeria’s governmental scenery from preventable violence.

“It is unfortunate that we person reduced governmental contests to this level. First, it was attacked by bandits and herdsmen; now, politicians are going aft 1 another.

“You tin besides spot what happened successful Abuja during the elections connected Saturday, wherever immoderate sponsored governmental thugs disrupted the process successful Abaji Area Council....