Angered by the widespread violence that Characterized the last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Kogi East Senatorial District, and the subsequent public outcry, His Royal Majesty, Idakwo Micheal Ameh Oboni 11, the Attah Igala has placed an ancestral curse on the perpetrators of the violence.
Addressing newsmen on Saturday in his palace at Idah, the ancestral home of Igala Kingdom, the angry monarch placed a curse on the perpetrators of the violence, and warned against a repeat in the remaining elections.
The Royal father lamented the spate of violence, describing it as unacceptable and unimaginable in a political contest that was supposed to be for brothers, warning that any one behind the violence would also die by violence following the wreath of the ancestral curse.
Flanked by other thirty traditional rulers, the Attah Igala who described politics as a game of numbers, warned against fanning embers of discord, disunity by the political class, and that henceforth the ancestral wrath of the Igala’s which has been invoked would not spare any one fomenting violence.
Last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Kogi East, left many dead and houses burnt, with the Senatorial election declared as inconclusive.
The Royal father who also called on parents to caution their children, warned the youths to desist from being used by politicians, as the ancestral wrath would be invoked, stressing that anyone found wanting in fomenting violence in the area would not be spared.
The Royal father warned the media to desist from sensational reporting and prayed for peace in Igala land.
