Kogi: Family Of Murdered PDP Women Leader To Drag FG TO ECOWAS

Family members of Salome Acheju Abuh the women leader of the Kogi state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who was slain during the state's governorship election in 2019 has revealed that they will institute a lawsuit against the Federal government at the ECOWAS court.

Making this revelation recently at the first memorial service of the late Kogi PDP women's leader, her Husband Simeone Abuh said that his family were still waiting for Justice.

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He further revealed that he has directed his lawyer to institute a suit against the Federal Government at the ECOWAS for failing to protect his family.

The widower further lamented that despite the fact that the killers of his wife were known, the state government had failed to bring the perpetrators of the evil act to book.

Further calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to help rebuild his home that was destroyed during the attack, Abuh said:

“We also pray the President to treat our homelessness as an emergency by resettling us and reconstructing our burnt down houses and those of key PDP members in Ochadamu. The government should also compensate us for our losses to justify her rights to life and association.”

It will be recalled that Acheju a PDP's Women Leader of Wada Aro Campaign Council, Ochadamu Ward,  in Ofu Local government was burnt to death in her home by individuals suspected to be political hoodlums.

Condemning the development, in 2019  Amina Mohammed the Deputy Secretary of the United Nations said that no person especially women should have to lose their lives while vying for a political position.

It will be recalled that Acheju worked with the candidate of the PDP in Kogi State at the state's governorship election in 2019.

However, she was one of the casualties of the Kogi state's post-election violence.

Despite all the calls for justice from 2019 till date, the family of the late women leader is still yet to get deserved justice.