Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, in Abuja, Agbo asserted that two armed individuals had entered the factional party secretariat in the Wuse Zone 4 area of the capital city in search of him.
He said the armed men were after his life.
Recall that the founder of the party and chairman of the board of trustees, Boniface Aniebonam, as well as Agbor and a few other executives, were expelled from the party in August 2017 as a result of suspected anti-party activities by the wing of the party led by Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Before this, Kwankwaso and the party’s National Working Committee were both placed on six-month suspensions by the party’s Board of Trustees due to alleged anti-party conduct.
In addition, the party named new national offices, including Major as interim national chairman.
Narrating his experience, the factional chairman said, “The reason for this briefing is to bring you to speed with an attempt made to assassinate me here in this office on Monday 16th August 2023.”
“I walked in here at about 2.45 pm, and shortly after that two men walked in, ignoring the protocol advice from the desk boys in the front office.
“They walked in with weapons demanding to meet me, unknown to them they were talking to me. It was evident that they never knew me physically, in fact, my saving grace was that I was not sitting on my chair.
“Pointing a short gun on me, they demanded that I produce “Major Agbo” who one of them claimed was his course mate at Command and Staff College, Jaji. I asked him if he would identify his course mate he was talking about if seen, he replied “yes”. I then told them Major Agbo was not around.”
He added that the men speedily withdrew, scampered into their ash-colored Toyota Corolla car parked by the express roadside, and fled.
Speaking on the recent happenings in the party due to attempts to hijack it by some ill-advised elements and political opportunists, he said hehad received several threats on his social media handles, phone calls, and text messages.
“Let me also confirm to you that I have received several threats through WhatsApp voice calls telling me I would pay with my life for standing in the way in their quest to take the party from its founder and its mother organisation – NAGAFF.
“They made their threat on Monday but failed woefully as they could not identify me. The matter has been reported to the appropriate quarters for action,” Agbo said.
“It is my sincere hope that you would lend your voices to this brazen attempt to take my life over what does not belong to them. I hope that you would let the whole world know that my life is presently in danger by usurpers who were not part of our party in its twenty-two years of existence but only joined us last year.”
