Don't congratulate me – Natasha Akpoti rejects Gov Bello’s congratulatory message

The feud between Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the Senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, and Yahaya Bello might not be ending anytime soon as the latter has rejected an apology from the Kogi State governor.

This comes after Bello sent out a congratulatory message to the lawmaker as the Appeal Court judgment upheld her victory at the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal.

Governor Bello congratulated the former PDP governorship candidate at the National Police Council meeting at the Presidential Villa Abuja on Tuesday, October 31. Describing her as his sister, he said it was necessary for him to accept the decision of the court to avoid a breakdown of law and order in the state.

Speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Tuesday, Natasha accused the governor of attempting to kill her on several occasions while insisting that he(the Governor) does not know what democracy is about.

“I would pretty much wish you had not played the Governor’s message here because I’m just getting to watch it now,” she said on Channels Television.

“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.”

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