Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi
state, has denied sending assassins after Simon Achuba, his deputy.
The deputy governor had alleged
that the governor had perfected plans to assassinate him.
In a statement on Thursday,
Mohammed Onogwu, chief press secretary to the governor, described the
allegation as “bogus and an exhibition of a blind rage by an angry suckling
with a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior.”
Onogwu said Achuba has no shred
of evidence to back up his “reckless” claim.
“We do not train assassins, (and)
as such, the state government or her personnel cannot be involved in sending
assassins to murder any human soul let alone a deputy governor of our dear
state,” he said.
“Despite these unsubstantiated
ramblings however, we deemed it fit to clear the air by letting the general
public know that the Kogi State Government would not be dragged into any form
of political gerrymandering concocted for the furtherance of any person’s
political interest or notoriety.
“We warn Mr Simon Achuba who is
known to history as a man whose affinity for violence is unparalleled not to
judge us by his own standards. The report of the Kogi State Government
Commission of Enquiry on the Iyaño Ethnic crises in 2017 is still fresh in our
memories.
“The Kogi State government led by
Alhaji Yahaya Bello , therefore, rejects the futile attempt at seeking to link
it to any assassination attempt on the Deputy Governor and we advice that
people desist from seeking political capital from scenarios they imagine would
advance their parochial cause, no matter how banal such causes may seem.
“Nigerians and Kogites in
particular are aware that it is not in the character of the administration to
persecute perceived opponents let alone the second in command of New Direction
team.”
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