Executive Governor Governor of Kogi, Alhaji Yahya Bello has told his deputy, Simon Achuba to either provide evidence of assassination attempts on his life or stop raising false alarms.
Achuba had on Thursday, August 1, at a press briefing in Lokoja alleged that Governor Yahaya, who he has been at loggerheads with has detailed some assassins to eliminate him.
Governor Yahaya through a statement signed by his chief Press Secretary, Onogwu Mohammed, dismissed the allegation and termed it as ”bogus and an exhibition of a blind rage by an angry suckling man with a long-term pattern of abnormal behaviour characterized by exaggerated feelings of self-importance”.
The statement reads, “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. Despite these unsubstantiated ramblings, however, we deem 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 advise 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 the ‘New Direction’ team.
“We have remained a model for peaceful engagement and political dialogue. Any inclination at portraying us otherwise will not be acceptable.”
