{"id":128401,"date":"2023-12-07T08:15:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T08:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/07\/gunmen-stole-kogi-governorship-election-petitions-from-tribunal-secretary-police\/"},"modified":"2023-12-07T08:15:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T08:15:31","slug":"gunmen-stole-kogi-governorship-election-petitions-from-tribunal-secretary-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/07\/gunmen-stole-kogi-governorship-election-petitions-from-tribunal-secretary-police\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gunmen Stole Kogi Governorship Election Petitions From Tribunal Secretary&#8221;\u2013 Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Secretary to the Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, David Mike, has told the police that gunmen ran away with the petitions of four political parties challenging the victory of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Usman Ododo, in the November 11, 2023 poll.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident on Wednesday, SP William Aya, the Police Public Relations Officer for the State Police Command, reported the details of the attack in Lokoja.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the documents carted away from Mike include, petitions filed by four (4) Parties: Action Alliance (AA), Action People\u2019s Party (APP), Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP) as well as two (2) Record Books\/a Bag containing his item.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Off- Cycle Polls: \u201cYou Kill Innocent People, Then Turn Around To Play Victim\u201d \u2013 Kogi APC Knocks SDP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police said: \u201cOn Monday, 04\/12\/2023 at about 1820hrs, one Mr David Umar Mike \u2018m\u2019 Secretary to Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal along with Labode Apreala (f) Confidential Secretary and Hassimu Adamu Assistant Secretary, came to State Criminal Investigation Department, Kogi State Police Headquarters and reported that on the said date, three of them left their hotel rooms in Lokoja about 1300hrs, heading to their Office at the High Court Complex driving in his (David\u2019s) Peugeot 406 Car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat just before the CBN at about 1320hrs, one SUV vehicle which had earlier overtaken him blocked his car with two other SUVs following behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of them surrounded and blocked him as he attempted to reverse. That he saw about seven hooded men all heavily armed and dressed in black attire who shot severally into the air and dragged him and his two other colleagues out of their car, ransacked the car and made away with all the petition documents.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-774880597\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary to the Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, David Mike, has told the police that gunmen ran away with the petitions of four political parties challenging the victory of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Usman Ododo, in the November 11, 2023 poll. 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