The Igala Vanguard, a socio-cultural group, has come down hard on the All Progressives Congress (APC ) House of Representatives Candidate for Dekina/Bassa Federal Constituency, Gowon Paul Haruna (a.k.a IJN), for alleged misdeeds, saying that his activities which has dragged the name of Igala nation in the mud were a great disservice.

The Vanguard, in a statement by Engineer Lawrence Akpa, says the inordinate ambition and short cut to political fame desire of the APC House of Representatives candidate have seen him descended so low with no value to himself and his extraction.

The group therefore declared Haruna a “persona non grata” to the Igala nation.

Akpa recalled with dismay, “series of activities by the APC candidate tailored towards the balkanisation, decapitation and dilapidation of the formidable Igala political empire, through connivance with non-Igala extraction to debase the political firmament of the race for mere parochial and personal interest.

Akpa wondered for how long, Haruna, with the non-decorum, would continue to drag the race in the mud of politics for the mere fact that the Igala society misplaced him as one of its patriotic representatives years back at the state level of lawmaking, only for him to allegedly turn to a conduit for siphoning the common wealth of the people and the entire state.

He added that many of Akpa’s alleged negative activities and disposition, have detached him from his roots and placed his origin in discord and consistent denials in his ancestral homes.

He said, in spite of the misplaced stance of the Igala nation through his elective representation, the lawmaker’s continuous anti-Igala stance has become worrisome and unabated to the chagrin of the voting public from his area.

The Igaa Vanguard chieftain reminded the APC candidate that his overtures of shortchange against the Igala nation when he delved into the moribund and delisted microfinance business with a mini-bank targeted at and allegedly defrauded the Igala/Bassa people, particularly the salaries of local government workers in the two local governments.

Part of Akpa’s statement reads: "Has he forgotten the month end scenario whenever salaries of Dekina/Bassa local government staff are paid, it is stolen by armed robbers that denied the two local governments workers he now wants to represent at the Green Chambers?

“We don't want to go into why and how the moribund Microfinance Bank solely owned by him was delisted by CBN for an act unbecoming of mini-money bank and how, through sharp practices, he allegedly acquired the funds from two serving Ministers in the previous administrations, masquerading as a Man of God?”

Akpa advised the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, ICPC and EFCC, among many anti-graft agencies, to carry out due diligence on the activities of the Board Chairman and sole owner of a moribund Micro-finance Bank, now an APC candidate in Kogi State, to represent Dekina/Bassa Federal Constituency.

He also urged the people of Dekina/Bassa to reject, in its totality, the quest by Haruna to represent the people at the National Assembly.

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