The All Progressives
Congress, APC, in Borno State has alleged that loyalists of former Governor
Ali Modu Sheriff led by one Barrister Kolo Adam, were behind rumours claiming
that Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau has been arrested at a UN rented
facility in Maiduguri.
Publicity Secretary, Makinta Zarami in a statement issued in Maiduguri
on Friday, said that Kolo Adam was the first to claim that he had information
that Shekau had been captured with one of Shekau’s legs injured.
He said the APC in Borno
State is worried that since former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff lost his case at the
Supreme Court over the chairmanship of the PDP, his loyalists have redirected
their mischief to spread different rumours.
”We were shocked that Kolo Adam, a known associate and one of
the spokespersons of Sheriff’s group, pasted on his Facebook wall today,
claiming that Abubakar Shekau was arrested by the Nigerian Military at a
facility rented by agencies of the United Nations in a house belonging to late
Governor Mala Kachalla.
”The same Kolo Adam claimed that abducted Lecturers of
University of Maiduguri were rescued. Immediately after Kolo Adam pasted that,
some loyalists of the former Governor began to share the information through
different social media platforms.
”The aim
was to achieve series of objectives. First, it was to incite youths in
Maiduguri against hundreds of humanitarian workers in order to destabilize
Borno State just to create a political atmosphere of failure on the part of the
APC led Government in Borno State to keep the State stable. ”Secondly,
the rumour was to link Boko Haram with the Mala Kachalla who was a known
political opponent of Sheriff so as to cleverly distance Sheriff from issues
relating to Boko Haram. It was also aimed at tarnishing the image of the
Federal and State Government which deal with humanitarian agencies helping
highly traumatized victims of the Boko Haram insurgency.
”The APC hereby demand for the immediate arrest of Kolo Adam
and all those who worked with him in sharing this dangerous rumour that is
capable of putting the lives of over two million IDPs at the risk of loosing
food and medical support from agencies of the United Nations and other
humanitarian workers.
”The APC also calls on security agencies to continue to do
their job and take on anyone or institution with factual link with the Boko
Haram so long as there proofs beyond reasonable doubt.
”The APC calls on the people of Borno State to dismiss this
rumour while calling on all those carrying out humanitarian activities to
remain calm and continue their works but with strict obedience to the laws of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the laws of Borno State under the APC”,
Zarami said.
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