The Kogi State government has accused the chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Arch Gabriel Aduku of “using the platform of the ACF to fan his ethno-political division agenda in Kogi State.”
Kogi State Information Commissioner, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, said the Arewa Chief was “promoting tension, fear and division in a state that is largely peaceful.”
Arch Aduku had earlier raised the alarm over what he called “politically motivated insecurity in Kogi State”, saying the November 11 Governorship Poll might not hold in the state if “authorities do not do something about it”.
He said “innocent people are killed and their properties destroyed in the past few weeks”.
Responding to Aduku on Plus Politics, a political program on Plus TV Africa, Fanwo accused the elder statesman of being an interested party who had failed to impose an unpopular candidate on the people of the state.
He said, “We can understand his pains. He led a faction of an ethnic-based group to endorse an unpopular candidate, but Kogites are standing their ground to sustain the unity of the State. What he tried to use the platform of the ACF to achieve is borne out of frustration and desperation.
