Kogi Election: Buhari Decries Murder of PDP Women Leader, Orders ‘Scrupulous’ Investigation

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President Muhammadu Buhari has directed relevant security agencies to conduct “scrupulous investigation” into the heinous murder of Madam Achejuh Abuh, Woman Leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Wada/Aro campaign council, in the just concluded gubernatorial election in Kogi State.

The President, in a statement today in Abuja by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, also decried “whatever could spur anyone to take the life of another human being, particularly a woman, who was burnt to death in her home in the most gruesome manner”.

The President charged all security agencies involved in the investigation to do a thorough and expeditious job on the matter, so that justice could be served without fear or favor, the statement says.

Buhari further stated: “We must learn to behave decently, whether during elections or at other times. No life should be taken wantonly under any guise, and the fact that this reprehensible act occurred two days after voting shows primitive behavior, which should not be accepted in a decent society.”

He sympathised with the family of the deceased, vowing that the law would catch up with the malefactors, and justice would be done.

“Any descent to barbarism, as was visited on the PDP Woman Leader, President Buhari says, has gone out of the realm of politics, and is pure criminality and bestiality.

“Such evildoers must be brought to justice, irrespective of whatever allegiances they hold,” the President affirmed.