The Kogi State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission to deny the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, in the just concluded state governorship poll, Muritala Ajaka, access to election materials.

Leading APC supporters at the INEC office in Lokoja, Julius Suleiman, told journalists that security agencies should compel the SDP candidate to accept defeat if he wants peace, because the election was won fairly by the APC candidate, Usman Ododo, and that nobody should challenge it.

Mr Suleiman said, “We are here this morning to address the press and everybody here that Kogi State is peaceful. In the election, the INEC conducted a free and fair election, and we want to support what INEC has done and that everybody should bring peace to society. 

“We don’t want a problem, a lot of persons or individuals who want to access the INEC materials; we don’t want such individuals to have access to it. What we are saying here today is that the election is credible, free, and fair. Anybody can go to an election and lose. We want peace in society, the security agencies should help us talk to Ajaka; no individual is above the law, and he cannot take the law into his own hands.

“We heard what he is trying to do to access the INEC office so he can manipulate his way. Election has come and we have won, APC has won gallantly and society is peaceful. We don’t want problems in our society. The security agencies; the message is clear, talk to Ajaka and let him accept defeat.’’