Buhari Directs Security Agencies To Investigate Killing Of PDP Woman Leader In Kogi

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has ordered security agencies in the country to ensure that they carry out a thorough and expeditious investigation into the murder of the Women Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State, Salome Acheju.

Buhari’s order comes barely a day after the PDP asked him to address issues of electoral violence and rigging in the just conducted Kogi and Bayelsa polls.

Salome who, was on Monday, November 18 gruesomely burnt alive in her home by suspected thugs was the women leader of Musa Wada/Aro campaign council, Ochadama ward.

Musa Wada was the governorship candidate of the PDP in the just concluded guber polls in the state.

The president gave the order in a statement by his Special adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina.

He condemned the act, decrying whatever could spur anyone to take the life of another human being, particularly a woman.

“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 behaviour, which should not be accepted in a decent society.”

While sympathising with the family of the deceased, the president vowed that the law would catch up with the perpetrators of the dastardly act and justice would be done.

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