DSS ARRESTS AND DETAINS ABIODUN FALEKE

Mr.  Duro Meseko, Media and Publicity Director  for Audu/Faleke Campaign Organisation, said in a statement he released  on Saturday that the APC Deputy Governorship candidate  in the Kogi State  Gubernatorial election, Hon. Abiodun Faleke, and Mohammed Audu, the eldest son of  late Abubakar Audu, were invited by the State Security Services for undisclosed reason, and were detained.

He stated that the two men arrived the SSS headquarters in Abuja at 10.00 am prompt and were kept in an office with the  assurance that an officer would attend to them  shortly only for them to be kept indefinitely and that both men  were kept in an isolated office till 4p.m on Saturday evening.
Meseko statement reads in part,"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 pertubed over the development, because we believe that God ultimately vindicate us," the statement read.

Faleke was running mate to the late Abubakar Audu in the November 21, 2015 gubernatorial election, that was declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) following the sudden death of the Alh. Abubakar Audu.

Abiodun Faleke is supposed  to be sworn in as the Deputy Governor of the State come January 27, 2016.