AC Scribe, Lai Mohammed, arrested

The National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress(AC), Chief Lai Mohammed, has been arrested by the police, in Lagos. Sources told P.M.NEWS , this evening, that Mohammed was invited to the Police Force Headquarters(Annexe), Moloney Street, Lagos. Once there, he was detained.

P.M.NEWS gathered that his arrest may not be unconnected with the allegation by the AC that there was a plot to assassinate the former governor of Lagos state and AC chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The police, P.M.NEWS gathered, invited him to explain all he knows about the allegation and possibly unmask those behind the plot.

When P.M.NEWS called the National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, on the issue, he confirmed the arrest of Mohammed. He said he had told Mohammed not to honour the police invitation. But Mohammed insisted that since he did not commit any offence, he had to go there. Both Akande and Mohammed were invited by the police, but Akande declined to honour the invitation, insisting that “if the police want to arrest me, they should come to my house with a warrant of arrest issued by the Inspector-General of Police.”

Chief Akande first raised the alarm in Ibadan, on Friday, 20 March, during the zonal conference of the party in the South-West. According to Chief Akande, the top echelon of the ruling PDP, in its efforts to subdue  and take over the soul of the South-West, has planned to assassinate certain top shots of the AC, especially the immediate past governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

According to Akande : “A PDP group is now meeting and seriously conspiring to assassinate certain AC leaders in the South-West, particularly Tinubu, who they consider to have become a swollen pain in the neck of their fraudulent onslaught for the soul of the South-West of Nigeria.” An unnamed Northern governor was said to be one of the arrowheads of the assassination plot.

Akande attributed the inordinate ambition of the PDP to eliminate Tinubu and other AC leaders to the plans of the PDP to rig  the forthcoming 25 April, 2009, re-run election in Ekiti State and also to maintain their hold on power in the South-West. The AC National Chairman linked the present PDP plans with what they did in 2001 by eliminating Chief Bola Ige to ensure they took over the reins of power in the South-West, in the 2003 elections.

This allegation prompted the Northern governors to call on the Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro, to investigate the allegation. The Northern governors also insisted that those making the claims must unmask those behind it.