Hajia Hadiza Ibrahim, one of the two female among the over 25 APC aspirants for the forthcoming Kogi State gubernatorial elections, stated she has written the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase and other security agencies over threats to her life.
She has fled the state over alleged threats to her life.
This is coming as all APC gubernatorial aspirants are billed to appear before a screening committee in the state today.
Speaking with journalists in Ibadan at the weekend, Ibrahim disclosed that she was advised to return to Abuja by an unknown person in Lokoja last Friday after picking expression of interest form, owing to security threat.
She stated she has received series of threat text messages and calls, particular, from somebody who claimed to be close to the top echelon of the party.
Expressing optimism that security agencies will live up to their duties and not only track and arrest her tormentors, but provide security for her, the Igala princess maintained that she would not bow to any threat as she is not going back on her ambition of picking the party’s ticket.
Narrating her ordeal in what she termed Nigerian murky water of politics, she stated her 33-year-old son, Kamaldeen, who was sympathetic to the political plight of President Muhammadu Buhari, was murdered by yet-to-be identified assailants in Ibadan on August 15, 2014 at his Bodija, Ibadan residence.
She said: “I acknowledge that it’s a men’s turf but I know it’s a turf that has been defined by the doggedness, determination and labour of women. Kogi must be free from the current underdevelopment. We must emancipate our people from poverty and diseases and we must consciously empower the people, especially our women and girls.
“Politics should not be with tears. These recent threats to my life by some political cabals in Kogi are designed to make women run away from politics and I will not chicken out. There is no going back because I have the support of my people.”