Former Ag Taraba gov, Umar, alleges plot to arrest him, supporters

Former acting governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Garba Umar, has alleged that the state government and its cabal have concluded plans to intimidate and arrest him and his core supporters on trump-up charges.Umar gubernatorial campaign 0rganisation said this in a statement, on Thursday, disclosing that the state government resorted to the infamous plot to ensure that he was denied opportunity to participate in the governorship primaries after all other plans had failed to stop him.The statement, signed by its campaign director-general, Ahmed Yusuf, said the plan included investigation of some spurious allegations against him and some of his principal officers, so as to distract them from the election process.Yusuf alleged that agents of the state government also planned to invite law enforcement officers from outside the state, to start a physical campaign of intimidation, harassment and arbitrary arrest of citizens on trump up charges, with a view to frightening them into submission or withdrawing their support for Alhaji Garba Umar.According to Yusuf, desperate politicians have hijacked the state government and commence a comprehensive campaign of calumny, harassment, intimidation and arrest of Umar's political opponents.He said the plan follows the state government's 'failure to assert its authority and influence on the political will of the citizens with a view to wrestling the control of PDP members from Alh. Garba Umar.
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