Natasha Akpoti, Senator-elect, says Yahaya Bello sent his henchmen to kill her

According to Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the senator-elect for Kogi Central, Yahaya Bello, the governor of Kogi State, attempted to injure her during the March senatorial election.
She said that her car was shot at by the governor’s goons.

The accusation was made by Akpoti-Uduaghan during a Tuesday interview on Politics Today on Channels Television.

“I heard guns firing, and I have video proof that his goons fired at my car.”

“They were wearing APC shirts, and one of them was Amoka, who was the returning officer for the local government of Okehi. It was the recent past. She remarked, “I have the footage where he directed the ten men to shoot at me.

Further, the senator-elect voiced his displeasure with the governor’s recent declaration in which he recognized her as the legitimate winner of the Kogi Central seat.

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She attacked the governor’s comments, calling attention to the contradiction between putting people’s lives at jeopardy and praising democracy for its inherent beauty.

This, he declared, is the beauty of politics; this, however, is not. She referred to it as “the beauty of democracy” and added that it is not acceptable to put people in risk, to kill people intentionally, to harm property, or to obstruct the democratic process in order to support your candidate.

In addition, Akpoti-Uduaghan said that the governor purposefully blocked important state highways in order to prevent the poll from proceeding smoothly.

Aside from that, the governor obstructs traffic. One day prior to the election, the governor excavated five roads and gullies. That was merely to make sure the election didn’t happen, which put my life in jeopardy.

“Thank God, we had the payloaders, and I worked all night to cover the gullies so that the election could take place. It was election day,” she continued.

The politician insisted, nonetheless, that she had to show her strength in the face of threats in order to avoid projecting a picture of frailty for women who are engaged in or aspire to be involved in political leadership.

“So that I wouldn’t look like I was begging for help every day, a lot of things happened that we couldn’t even bring in front of the media. “I had to demonstrate my strength because I didn’t want to deter other women who might be interested in politics from doing so because they believe it to be too violent or volatile,” she insisted.