Elizabeth O.
“You tried to kill me,” Senator Natasha says, as she rejects Kogi Gov. Yahaya’s congratulatory message
The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Tuesday, October 31, affirmed Natasha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of the Kogi Central Senatorial election held in February.
The three-member panel, in a judgment, upheld the judgment of the state’s election tribunal and dismissed the appeal filed by Sen. Abubakar Ohere of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The state governor on Tuesday congratulated the former PDP governorship candidate after participating in the National Police Council meeting at the Presidential Villa Abuja.
However, speaking with Channels Television, Natasha said: “I would pretty much wish you had not played the Governor’s message here because I’m just getting to watch it now.
He said this is the beauty of politics, this is not the beauty of politics. You don’t endanger yourself, set out to kill people, destroy property and frustrate the electoral process because you want your candidate to win and call it the beauty of democracy.
I heard guns, I had his hunchmen shoot at my vehicle. I have video evidence of that. They wore APC shirts and one of them was Amoka, he was actually a Returning Officer… he led the group of 10 men to shoot at me. I have the videos capturing that.
And apart from that, a day to the election, the governor dug five gullies, cutting off five roads and that was just to prevent election from going on and probably endangering my life.
It was a day to the election but thank God we had the pay-loaders and I went all night; we had to cover the gullies so that the election could take place.”
