The
Department of State Services (DSS) has detained deputy governorship
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in November 21, 2015
governorship election in Kogi State, James Faleke, and Mohammed Audu,
son of late Abubakar Audu, for growing security challenges in the state.
Per Second News
gathered that the political thugs of the duo has in recent times
attacked and disrupted political meetings across the state with the
political atmosphere in the state being characterized with tension and
violence as various vices operate.
Alarmed
by the spate of political violence in the state, the security agencies
had been forced to resuscitate the state special security outfit with
growing number of petitions against the two of them.
Per Second News can reveal that prominent Kogi leaders perceive to be working for governor-elect Yahaya Bello has been attacked and intimidated.
A PDP
board of trustees member and friend of the late Audu, Ahmadu Ali, was
attacked by the hoodlums inside the residence of the late Audu at
Ogbonicha when he went to pay a condolence visit. The visibly shaken Ali
ran for his life when the gang chased after his vehicle hurling stones
at him.
The duo were on Saturday invited and detained by the Department of State Services (DSS).
According
to Duro Meseko, Director, Media and Publicity of Audu/Faleke Campaign
Organisation, the duo arrived the DSS headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria’s
capital at 10:00am and were kept in an office with assurances that an
officer would attend to them only to keep them indefinitely.
Meseko claimed that the two politicians were kept in an isolated office till 4:00 p.m on Saturday evening.
“I’m
surprised my Principal and the eldest son of our political leader,
Mohammed are still being kept as I speak with you which is 4:00pm. What
could be responsible for this ill treatment by the SSS?
“Or
could they be acting the intimidation script? Trying to arms-twist them
into abandoning the sacred mandate freely given to the Audu/Faleke team
by the generality of Kogi people?
“Let me
make it abundantly clear that our mandate is sacred and no amount of of
technical detention, intimidation and harassment would shake our
resolve to get justice through the judiciary.
“I
refuse to believe that the presidency has hands in the arrest! But we
may not rule out the fact that the power that be must have wielded their
influence in the arrest, but we are not not pertubed over the
development, because we believe that God ultimately vindicate us.”
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