SSS ARRESTS AASSASSINATOR HIRED BY GOVERNOR

The State Security Service (SSS) today
paraded a suspect, ex-militant Adelola
Tamunotonye Olaore, alias “General
Africa” over a plot to assassinate and
extort money from Senator Aloysius Etok
in Abuja.
Senator Etok is the man that Governor
Goodswill Akpabio openly admitted
having rigged into office, although the
Senator has said his election was
transparent.
But Senator Etok also occupies the Ikot
Ekpene Senatorial Seat, the same seat that
the governor covets in 2015 when he
cannot run for a third term, giving the
impression it is merely being held in
trust for him.
The suspect, who was born in Port
Harcourt, hails from Okeho in Kajola
Local Government of Oyo State. He
confessed to having been contracted by
three of Governor Akpabio’s loyalists to
assassinate Senator Etok. In order to
convince the Senator [he was not lying]
he offered to furnish him with details of
the Governor’s purported Bank Account
and Energy Company in South Africa.
Adelola said that he wanted to broker
peace between Governor Akpabio and
Senator Etok, having followed the
political wrangling between the duo over
the Ikot Ekpene Senatorial Seat.
He confessed to having used the political
rift to extort money but he was
apprehended by the security operatives.
That development following a directive
from the SSS to the Senator who had
written a letter to the service titled
“REPORT OF THE PLANNED
ASSASINATION BY A MAN WHO CALLS
HIMSELF GENERAL AFRICA (AN-EX
MILLITANT)”
The Senator was asked to play along with
the suspect, leading to his arrest on April
29.
Governor Akpabio, a personal friend of
President Goodluck Jonathan, has made
it plain he will represent the Ikot Ekpene
Senatorial District in the Senate in 2015,
an ambition that has the entire Peoples
Democratic Party machinery in the state
behind him, including a faction of the
legislature which recently adopted a
resolution warning Senator Etok they
will only support Akpabio’s Senatorial
candidature in the forthcoming election.
Speaking recently in an interview about
the political manipulations in Akwa
Ibom State, the Senator said, “That is
what happened during my second term
struggle that as soon as they knew I was
going to contest, my wife was kidnapped.
After the release of my wife, my mother
in law was kidnapped.
“When she was released, she died
because of the torture she received in the
hands of the kidnappers. As a result of
that my father in law died out the heart
break. Therefore, I also want Nigerians
to ask Governor Akpabio what I have
done to him. I have not done anything to
him. I want all of you, like I am going to
send a petition to the President, to ask
Governor Akpabio to let me be. That his
hit squad which he has resurrected
should let me live. If anything happens
to me, I want the world to know that
Governor Akpabio is after my life.”