The All Progressives Congress,
APC, in Borno State has alleged that loyalists of former Governor Ali Modu
Sheriff led by one Barrister Kolo Adam, were behind rumours claiming that
Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau has been arrested at a UN rented facility in
Maiduguri.
Publicity Secretary, Makinta
Zarami in a statement issued in Maiduguri on Friday, said that Kolo Adam was
the first to claim that he had information that Shekau had been captured with
one of Shekau’s legs injured.
He said the APC in Borno State
is worried that since former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff lost his case at the
Supreme Court over the chairmanship of the PDP, his loyalists have redirected
their mischief to spread different rumours.
”We were shocked that Kolo Adam,
a known associate and one of the spokespersons of Sheriff’s group, pasted on
his Facebook wall today, claiming that Abubakar Shekau was arrested by the
Nigerian Military at a facility rented by agencies of the United Nations in a
house belonging to late Governor Mala Kachalla.
”The same Kolo Adam claimed that
abducted Lecturers of University of Maiduguri were rescued. Immediately after
Kolo Adam pasted that, some loyalists of the former Governor began to share the
information through different social media platforms.
”The aim was to achieve series
of objectives. First, it was to incite youths in Maiduguri against hundreds of
humanitarian workers in order to destabilize Borno State just to create a
political atmosphere of failure on the part of the APC led Government in Borno
State to keep the State stable.
”Secondly, the rumour was to
link Boko Haram with the Mala Kachalla who was a known political opponent of
Sheriff so as to cleverly distance Sheriff from issues relating to Boko Haram.
It was also aimed at tarnishing the image of the Federal and State Government
which deal with humanitarian agencies helping highly traumatized victims of the
Boko Haram insurgency.
”The APC hereby demand for the
immediate arrest of Kolo Adam and all those who worked with him in sharing this
dangerous rumour that is capable of putting the lives of over two million IDPs
at the risk of loosing food and medical support from agencies of the United
Nations and other humanitarian workers.
”The APC also calls on security
agencies to continue to do their job and take on anyone or institution with
factual link with the Boko Haram so long as there proofs beyond reasonable
doubt.
”The APC calls on the people of
Borno State to dismiss this rumour while calling on all those carrying out
humanitarian activities to remain calm and continue their works but with strict
obedience to the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the laws of Borno
State under the APC”, Zarami said.
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