David Mark, a former president of the Senate, has raised alarm over alleged plot by Benson Abounu, the deputy governor of Benue state, and some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to assassinate him ahead of Saturday’s rerun in the southern senatorial district. Premium Times reports that Mark made a statement by his media aide, Paul Mumeh, on Monday, February 15.
The former Senate president alleged
that Daniel Onjeh, the APC candidate for the election, through his
campaign Director, Okpokwu Ogenyi, in connivance with the deputy
governor, had hired cultists to unleash terror in the district and in
the process eliminate him.
According to the statement, the
cultists allegedly hired for the assassination include the notorious
supreme Vikings squad from Jos, Plateau state and the dreaded Black Axe
in Makurdi, the Benue state capital.
David Mark writes APC chairman, John
Oyegun, petitioned Solomon Arase, the Inspector General of Police, and
informed him of the plot by the APC stalwarts in the state to
assassinate him. In a petition signed by his counsel, Ken Ikonne, the
former Senate president alleged that Ogenyi knows more about the
assassination plot than he has revealed.
“Our client has therefore instructed
us to petition you (IGP) to as a matter of urgency apprehend and
interrogate Ogenyi to throw more light on the details of this grave
assassination plot before he and his associates carry out the dastardly
plot.
“Only yesterday, police said to be
attached to the State Deputy Governor Benson Abounu fired several gun
shots into the family house of Senator Mark in Otukpo. “No reason was
given for the unprovoked attack and no arrest has been made.”
Abbah Yaro, the chairman of the APC
in the state, was quoted as saying: “If Senator Mark wants, let him win
the election in seven out of the nine local government areas but no
returning officer born of a woman will dare declare him.”
Source: Ritafamous blog
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