Bayelsa guber: PDP leaders plotting for my death – Tinubu’s man cries out
Prince Preye Aganaba, the Bayelsa State Coordinator of the Independent Campaign Council for Tinubu-Shettima, has accused Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders in the state, particularly in his Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area, of plotting to kill him ahead of the Bayelsa governorship election on November 11th.
Aganaba, who is from the same local government as the state governor, Douye Diri, claimed that reliable information made available to him showed that party leaders conducted protracted meetings in secret to finalize their nefarious plan to get rid of him in order to protect the governor from being humiliated at the polls.
Following the results of the most recent presidential election in Kolokuma-Opokuma, where Aganaba’s influence is said to have contributed to the PDP’s defeat in some council seats, the PDP leaders allegedly felt uneasy.
Aganaba claimed that gangsters under the command of a “unrepentant militant” were under consideration to carry out the hit and make it appear accidental.
He demanded that the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and security services step up their security around him, adding that the PDP leaders would be held accountable if anything were to happen to him.
He said:
“I wish to bring to the general public credible reports I and my security team have received concerning threats to my life and asinine plans to eliminate me before the November 11 governorship elections.
“Several secret meetings have been held and men of the underworld are being considered to carry out their most base plan, so this statement is my first line of defence.
“It is sad that anyone would contemplate reintroducing the old, discarded culture of political assassinations in Bayelsa State. Candidates, supporters and parties have all the resources to campaign and express why they should be chosen.
“We are in the campaign periods as stipulated by law. It is highly retrogressive that a human life will be equated to votes and ego.
“I call on the Inspector-General of Police, the Director of Department of State Security, other security agencies and Nigerians to kindly look out and have an eye on me and to hold politicians from the ruling party within my LGA and their wicked collaborators responsible if anything happens to me.
“I need to remind them that God is the supreme giver of life who gives and takes it whenever he chooses. As a law-abiding citizen, I will continue to serve my people lawfully to the best of my ability.
“But more importantly, even beyond my own life, is the duty we all have to protect our democratic process, to make all votes count and to keep off intimidation and violence from our elections.”