The Department of State Services on Saturday arrested the embattled deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Kogi State Governorship election, James Abiodun Faleke.
Also arrested was Mohammed, the son of the initial governorship candidate of the APC, late Prince Abubakar Audu.
Faleke and Mohammed were invited for questioning by the DSS at its Abuja office but ended up being detained.
According to a statement by the spokesman of the Abubakar Audu/Abiodun Faleke Campaign Organisation, Duro Meseko, the two men, who arrived at the DSS headquarters at 10am, were still being detained at 4pm with no operative of the Agency to attend to them.
Meseko said in the statement: “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 perturbed over the development, because we believe that God ultimately vindicate us.”
Faleke has refused to accept the new candidate thrown up by the APC, Yahaya Bello, for the Kogi State governorship election.
He had instead chosen Mohammed Audu as his running mate and headed to court to contest the validity of the action of APC in declaring Bello the candidate of the party.
His contention has been that as the running mate of late Audu, he should automatically emerge the flag bearer of the party.
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