The Director, Media and Publicity of Audu/Faleke Campaign
Organisation, Duro Meseko, said in a statement on Saturday that the
Deputy Governorship candidate of the APC in the Governorship election in
Kogi State, James Faleke, and Mohammed Audu, the eldest son of the late
Abubakar Audu, were invited by the State Security Services for
undisclosed reason, and then detained.
He revealed that the duo arrived the SSS headquarters in Abuja at
exactly 10.00am and were kept in an office with assurances that an
officer would attend to them only to keep them indefinitely, adding that
the two politicians were kept in an isolated office till 4p.m on
Saturday evening.
"I’m surprised my Principal and the eldest son of our political
leader, Mohammed are still being kept as I speak with you which is 4pm.
What could be responsible for this ill treatment by the SSS?
Or could they be acting the intimidation script? Trying to
arms-twist them into abandoning the sacred mandate freely given to the
Audu/Faleke team by the generality of Kogi people?
Let me make it abundantly clear that our mandate is sacred and
no amount of of technical detention, intimidation and harassment would
shake our resolve to get justice through the judiciary.
I refuse to believe that the presidency has hands in the
arrest! But we may not rule out the fact that the power that be must
have wielded their influence in the arrest, but we are not not pertubed
over the development, because we believe that God ultimately vindicate
us," the statement read.
Faleke was running mate to the late Abubakar Audu in the November
21, 2015 gubernatorial election, that was declared inconclusive by the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Faleke is billed to be sworn in on January 27, 2016, alongside Bello.
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