A statement issued on Wednesday in Lokoja by the Director of New Media, Muri/Sam campaign organisation, David Ijele, claimed that the organisation had it on good authority that the governor was doing this to salvage his administration.
“A reliable source has revealed his plans to frame and arrest key leaders of our party, such as the Director General, Muri/Sam Campaign Council, Sheikh Jibril Ibrahim, the Director General of Youths Mobilisation, Ahmed Attah, and other esteemed members of the Muri/Sam Campaign Council.”
“In fact, in a bid to execute his plans, he has secured a court order to arrest them. We feel it is essential to bring this information to the attention of the General public. We firmly assert that any attempt to detain our leaders will be met with resistance from the citizens of Kogi State, who are eager for a change in governance.”
However, the APC campaign council denied such allegations, describing them as “spuriously concocted lies” that would not stop security agencies from ensuring a peaceful poll.
Reacting to the allegation, the spokesman/Director of Media and Publicity, Kogi State APC Campaign Council, Kingsley Fanwo, said, “Our attention has been drawn to a spurious allegation by the discredited merchant of falsehood in Kogi politics, the Social Democratic Party, to the effect that Governor Yahaya Bello is planning to arrest SDP leaders over frame-up charges of terrorism. This is another tempo of falsehood from the bottle-size, overambitious group.”
According to him, “Terrorism is a very serious national issue that shouldn’t be ordinarily trivialised by any group, no matter how confused. But the SDP would stop at nothing to push their noses in front as serious contenders when they know they stand no chance whatsoever in the forthcoming governorship election.
The APC campaign council urged security agencies to invite the fiction authors for questioning and to tender empirical facts to support their claims.
He said, “We wish to dismiss the allegation as another attention-seeking, unimaginatively concocted lie aimed at creating panic and preemptively covering their satanic plans against the Kogi voters. The SDP and its desperate candidate must also raise dust to keep their access to the pockets of their sponsors alive. We are miles ahead of the known and hideous conspirators.”
