The Director General of Department of State Security Service (DSS ), National Headquarters Abuja is to interrogate all Progressives Congress, (APC), candidate for Dekina/Bassa House of Representatives, 2023, Honourable Gowon Haruna a.k.a IJN, and the current Chairman of Dekina Local Government Area, Prince Ishaq Okolo, over the distribution of firearms, training of militia group to distabilise the forthcoming election and plot to assassinate some key members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), including the PDP’s House of Representatives Candidate, Honourable Usman Austin Okai for Dekina/Bassa 2023.
In a petition signed by Honourable Usman Austin Okai to the Director of DSS, Abuja, he accused IJN and Prince Ishaq Okolo how they have consistently continue to intimidate and threaten his life and that of notable PDP’s Stakeholders, Youth Leaders, and Party Supporters in Dekina and Bassa Local Government Areas.
In a copy of the petition which was addressed to the Director General of the Secret Police and sighted by CAPITAL POST on Wednesday, Okai revealed how the duo had also perfected plan to disrupt any of his campaign rally in Dekina and Bassa Local Government Areas.
Honourable Okai alleged that “there’s a plan to plant guns and other dangerous weapons in the Houses and farmlands of key members of his campaign team in connivance with the Local vigilante networks operating within the Local Government Areas.
He further explained that “Traditional Rulers are being blackmailed to indicte some of his supporters and subsequently arrest them for possession of arms with the intent to disrupt the election”.
Part of Okai’s petition reads:
“I humbly write to bring to your attention the relentless intimidation and threat to my life, that of notable PDP leaders, party youth leaders and supporters from Dekina/Bassa federal constituency.
There is an ongoing plan to violently disrupt my campaign rallies by the chairman of Dekina Local Government, Prince Ishaq Okolo and Hon Gowon Paul Haruna (IJN).
There’s also a plan to plant guns and other dangerous weapons in the houses and farmland of key members of my campaign team in connivance with the local vigilante networks operating within the local government area.
Traditional Rulers are being blackmailed to indict some of my supporters and subsequently arrest them for possession of arms with the intent to disrupt the election.
In the same vein, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ), running for the state assembly in my constituency is not left out in this evil plot.
“There is a plan to violently attack my supporters, disrupt my campaign rallies and plant guns in my supporters houses, farmlands and initiate force flag attacks that are being put in motion to be executed a week before on 25th February 2023 when general election would be held.
“Four sienna space Buses with covered plate numbers have been dedicated to execute these nefarious attacks coordinated by the local government Chairman of Dekina, Prince Ishaq Okolo.
“The thugs he intends to use to execute his destabilizing agenda are made up of All Progressive ( APC ), youth leaders in Dekina Local Government and the local vigilante group.
“On good authority, one Diyel Mopol, who is the head of Thugs in Abocho / Ogbabede wards is currently camping and training some Thugs in Abocho Area to complete elaborate arrangement of Prince Ishaq Okolo and that of IJN.
“Diyel Mopol, a notorious Thug in Abocho who is dreadfully feared by the residents is regarded as Semi god in Abocho and its environs because of his violence antecedent in both the past and present elections in favour of APC.
“To these culprits in the petition, whoever is not voting for their Party, APC, is their enemy and such a person has the option of staying away or being attack.
“With these perfected plans by the culprits to carry out this dastardly act, We call on the Department of State Security Service to swiftly swing into action to investigate and arrest the situation before it leads to a catastrophic knowing fully well that such allegations ignored in the past, later led to needless bloodshed and violent disruption of the election in Abocho and the entire Ogbabede Ward in 2015 and 2019 respectively.
“From available fact, Dekina Local Government Area has a tragic history of electoral violence and we thus call on the Department of State Security Service (DSSS) to take seriously this petition and put mechanism in place to forestall the violent disruption of the House of Representatives election in Dekina/Bassa and to guarantee the safety of my lives, that of notable party leaders in my constituency and my teeming supporters.’
