Assassination attempt: Police declare Benue ex-council Boss wanted
The Nigerian Police has on Saturday
launched a hunt on the immediate past Chairman of Ogbadibo Local Govt
Council in Benue, Mr. Oduma Paul Adoyi.
Mr. Paul was accused of threatening an
Abuja based Journalist and Publisher of DayBreak Newspaper, Yemi Itodo
after beating him up at the Benue Governor’s Lodge in Asokoro Abuja on
Friday, under the nose of Gov. Samuel Ortom.
According to a report, it took the
spirited efforts of Journalists and some Aides of the Governor before
Mr. Itodo was rescued from the ex-council boss and his thugs.
As soon as the Journalist was discharged
from the hospital, he lodged the complaint with the Police who made
frantic efforts to invite Mr. Paul Adoyi but he turned down Police
invitation, using the Governor as a coverage.
When contacted on phone, Mr. Adoyi said
he was attending a function with Gov. Samuel Ortom and as such could not
have honoured Police invitation.
On his part, Yemi Itodo has this to say
“The Police have gone on enquiries and searched where he could be, but
to no avail. They have called him severally whereas he promised to show
up; only to come up with the excuse of being with the Governor.
” I wonder what the Governor would be
doing with him or why he would offer him protection against the law when
it’s obvious he (the Governor) knew the gravity of the offence his
council chairman committed.
“I’m not surprised anyway because the
Governor saw what happened yesterday, yet, there has not been any
official statement from his office to condemn the dangerous act. What if
I was killed in his house, under his watch; would he have shielded the
Culprit”?
Meanwhile, the security operatives in
Abuja have also received reports on various threat and strange phone
calls received by Yemi Itodo in the past 24 hours.
One of the callers who simply gave his
name as “Officer from Bayelsa” has made several phone calls to Mr. Itodo
with the following phone number – 07050740153.
However, when security checks was
carried on the contact, it was discovered that the original name of the
user as registered with service provider is SUNDAY ALI with all other
useful data at the disposal of Nigeria security.
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