By Dele Moses, Ilorin
Rafiu Ajakaye, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State has alleged a plot to implicate the governor in a planned violence he knows nothing going about.
Ajakaye said planners of the alleged plot whom he described as “some political interests” meant to instigate the violence and then blame it on the governor.
He said the plot was part of a grand conspiracy to paint the governor negatively therefore rubbishing his reputation as a non-violent politician.
Ajakaye said the plotters also planned to come up with spurious corruption allegations using sexed up official documents and innuendoes in the media to blackmail the governor.
He said the reason they want to resort to these mischievous acts was because the governor did not believe in sharing public patrimony to few individuals.
The governor’s aide urged members of the public and security agencies to be wary of the conspiracies.
He stated: “The objective of the plotters is to create a false image for the Governor as a promoter of violence, thereby heating up the polity in the name of politics and pitching him against the public. The desperadoes behind this plot do not care about the safety of the ordinary people and their properties.
“The image they desperately seek to give the Governor is contrary to the sustained policy of His Excellency not to patronise thugs or any violent elements as was the case in the recent past. Rather than deploy the children of other people for political violence, the Governor desires to build a state that gives everyone, including those long condemned to thuggery and other antisocial behaviour, a fair chance to lead decent life.
“It is on record that even before becoming the Governor, he ran a campaign that was strictly issues-based without going around with thugs. He has a personal conviction that politics should be devoid of violence of any kind.
“Another leg of the evil campaign is a planned and sustained media campaign of calumny woven around baseless allegations of corruption, contract inflation and the likes using doctored documents and wicked innuendoes. All of these are targeted at the Governor because he chooses to do things differently.
“His only sin is his principled stand that Otoge means we cannot continue to share public patrimony to a few individuals. He is being targeted for malicious campaigns because he chooses to be his own man, and not to be another stooge who would be tossed around to do biddings other than what the public expects of him.”
