President Muhammadu Buhari has finally responded to the brutal murder of Salome Abuh, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) women leader in Kogi State, a w
President Muhammadu Buhari has finally responded to the brutal murder of Salome Abuh, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) women leader in Kogi State, a week after the incidence. He ordered an investigation into her murder.
Recall that Salome Abuh, 60, was sleeping in her home when political thugs, believed to be of the All Progressives Congress (APC) set the building alight shortly before sunset last Monday. The police believe her murder was a reprisal attack.
Her murder two days after the violence-ridden Kogi governorship election increased the fatalities from the election. At least 10 people were reported killed in election-related violence in the state during the November 16 governorship election in the state.
Buhari’s party, APC, won the governorship election and its officials have repeatedly claimed that the election was transparent and violence-free despite all the evidence to the contrary. Prominent election observer groups who monitored the election condemned the level of violence with at least two of them, YIAGA and Situation Room, calling for the outright cancellation of the election.
Buhari, in his Sunday statement, did not admit the killings during the election or the amount of violence witnessed; he, however, condemned the murder of Mrs Abuh. The president’s reaction to the murder was contained in a statement by his spokesperson, Femi Adesina. He said Buhari sympathizes with the family of the deceased, and vowed 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, the spokesman said.
“Such evildoers must be brought to justice, irrespective of whatever allegiances they hold,” Buhari was quoted as saying.
