The Caretaker Committee Chairman of Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area, Rivers State, and the leader of the All Progressives Congress in the area, Mr. Mina Tende, has accused the leader of the anti-Rotimi Amaechi lawmakers, Mr. Evans Bipi, of plotting to assassinate him.
Tende explained that he had resorted to hiding in order not to be hacked down by gunmen who might have been hired by the lawmaker.
The council boss, who spoke on Sunday, said Bipi, who is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, had never hidden his (Bipi) resolve to eliminate him.
He pointed out that his trouble with the lawmaker started when he cautioned that billboards and posters belonging to the APC should not be destroyed.
Explaining that he wrote a petition on the matter to President Goodluck Jonathan, the police and other security agencies, Tende recalled that he had escaped an attempt on his life few days ago by suspected thugs working for the lawmaker.
According to him, the lawmaker had boasted at different occasions that he (Bipi) has security agents at his disposal to intimidate his political enemies during the general election.
“When they could not get me, they descended on my personal assistant and gave him the beating of his life, including a knife cut on his face. My life is under threat because I insisted that APC billboard should not be demolished by agents of PDP in my area.
“Because I said there should be no interference in the activities of my great party (APC), that was why they have listed me as one of those to be eliminated. The PDP leader in my area, Hon. Evans Bipi, personally told me that he must assassinate or kidnap me before or after election.
“I have written to the Inspector General of Police, President Goodluck Jonathan, PDP, APC and other security agencies over this matter. I am shouting now because I know what Bipi is capable of doing.
“I am not the only one running for my dear life, other leaders of APC in the area are been threatened also. We shifted our governorship rally recently because of strange faces that thronged the LGA a night before the proposed rally with the aim to cause havoc,” the council boss said.
Reacting to the allegation against him, Bipi, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent, described Tende’s claim as false and added that he had never contemplated killing any person in his life.
Bipi said the APC chieftain was blackmailing him in order to get cheap popularity and persuade the State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, to extend his tenure as a council chairman.
The so-called council chairman is looking for cheap popularity. You know I cannot threaten anybody; it is not in my nature. I am a grassroots man and a man of the people and do not need to threaten anybody.
“He (Tende) is just looking for public sympathy. He is an APC man that is seeking cheap popularity and just wanted to blackmail me with such an allegation. Why must he do that? Is he the one contesting election with me,” Bipi queried. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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