Natasha’s recall process, deceitful handiwork of adhoc or ponzi organisations – KOCEPA 

The group’s coordinator, Abdulrazak Baba, addressed a a press conference at Ihima, Okehi LGA of Kogi State on Sunday, where he described the exercise as a mischievous and manipulative fraud orchestrated by some political opponents of Akpoti-Uduaghan.

Insisting that efforts to recall the lawmaker will fail, Baba explained that many constituents were misled to come for an empowerment programme last week, where they were compelled to put down their signatures to begin the recall process.

“By now, we are sure that all of you are aware that the public was deceived to believe that the manipulative recall charade was for the purpose of empowerment,” he said.

“It is suffices to say that a genuine recall is supposed to be an organic process and not something engineered by a sat of opportunistic enemies.

“By now also, gentlemen of the press, you have known that the charade of last week did not hold in most polling units, wards and local government areas. Even the few areas where they were able to mislead people, they were chased away with pebbles, with curses and insults being heaped on them as seen in videos, voice notes and written texts in various platforms in Kogi Central Senatorial Zone.

“They weaponized lies and deceits to take advantage of the not so-informed public. For instance, the Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja issued a restraining order on Thursday 20th March, 2025 to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from receiving petitions regarding the recall of Senator Natasaha Akpoti Uduaghan, and this order subsists.

“It may also interest you to know that, unlike Senator Natasha’s true constituents who are known credible and patriotic individuals and associations in the society, the forces behind these shenanigans and facade called recall exercise have not been credible enough to be unmasked, at best, they are adhoc or ponzi organizations.

“We don’t mind if anybody wants to test our senator’s popularity, but we cannot underestimate the power of money in the Nigerian contemporary society and the manipulative powers of those who control the institutions of governance and the mindless abuse of security personnel by
those who control the levers of power.

“We operate a bizarre system where you can have 50 voters at the polling unit and a returning officer may return a result of 500,000 votes if not well monitored.”