The leaders of the All Progressives Congress in Delta State, and the party 2015 governorship candidate, Olorogun O\u2019tega Emerhor has condemned the arrest and harassment of some APC members and chieftains by men of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS while Dr. Christopher Ominimini says those invaded his home wants to assassinate him<\/p>\n
\u00a0The APC leader, while reacting to the arrest of four party boys at\u00a0Evwerni community, Ughelli North local government area, Delta state,\u00a0Monday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0night by men of SARS, urged the police not allow themselves be used by politicians.<\/p>\n The arrest of the four boys which was allegedly mastermind by a PDP lawmaker in the area, Mr Samuel Mariere threw the once peaceful community resulted to crisis as the youths took to the street to protest, barricading major access to the town.<\/p>\n Emerhor, who confirmed the arrest of the APC members in a telephone chat with our correspondent said; \u201cThey came to Evwerni to carry some boys, I think it\u2019s Mr Mariere and his PDP people that did it.<\/p>\n \u201cThey invited SARS to come and carry them, maybe they didn\u2019t hear that we won\u2019t participate in their rerun election.<\/p>\n \u201cThey came and carried four boys in Evwerni community and I learnt they went to Ominimini\u2019s place also. But we have freed them; we called the State Police Commissioner who immediately acted.<\/p>\n \u201cTheir actions threw the community into pandemonium, but I don\u2019t know if they went to other communities.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to condemn this, we should not play politics with human lives, and harassing people with police will not advance peace in Delta state.<\/p>\n \u201cThe men of SARS should not allow themselves to be dragged into partisan politics,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Speaking also, Dr. Christopher Ominimini said that the gunmen who invaded his house at about\u00a02am <\/span><\/span>trying to pull his gate down could not have been policemen, but assassins who came with intention to kill.<\/p>\n According to the APC chieftain, \u201cgunmen invaded my house, they were hitting at my gate. They were pointing touches at the compound from all sides, surrounding the compound. They wanted to force the gate open but they couldn\u2019t. They waited for sometime before they drove away. It was as if they were caring heavy metals.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is an attempt to assassinate their head, because I am the chairman of APC Local Government Strategy Committee in Ughelli North. This is a plot to assassinate some of us, because I am a chief of the APC.<\/p>\n \u201cGiven my level in the society as a chief, as a former commissioner, as a former working committee member of a political party and a PHD degree holder. A man who has held so many appointments at the state level, and also who is well known. No normal human being will besiege my compound at\u00a0 2:00am<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in the\u00a0midnight<\/span><\/span>, so they are assassins.<\/p>\n \u201cThough the information reaching me says that, the same people went to other places, but am yet to verify that, but the people who came to my house were purely assassins, because if they were policemen, they would have written a letter to invite me and of course you know I have policemen presence in my compound, and not to come all of a sudden to pull down my gate. These men are assassins.<\/p>\n When asked if he has formally made complaint to the police authority, he said; \u201cyou know today is their purported re-run election, so I can\u2019t go out now. I have sent text to top police officers, that I have their numbers.<\/p>\n \u201cI am also making personal investigation, because when they came and were hitting the gate one of them received a call, and the other one was telling him, please stop that phone call, and he mentioned the name of the caller on the phone.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd these were the people who had organised attack to eliminate me, mostly in the past election, so they are known. I will make a formal complaint to the police and the appropriate quarter where I know justice will be served.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not there first attack; they shot at me in the last election, because they said Ominimini supported Buhari, so they launched attack on me at about the same time\u00a02:00am<\/span><\/span>, where they shot my gateman in Agbarha.<\/p>\n This is the fourth attack, one at the collation centre, two in my compound in Agbarha and this one. They were also trying to jump into my compound, but they felt it was too risky to jump into my premises.<\/p>\n \u201cWe saw two hilux, one black and the other white, but the people at my opposite compound said there were other vehicles also behind them. All of them who came were half face covered; we will not keep our hands tied to allow this people to kill us in our own given land. We will complain to the appropriate authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The leaders of the All Progressives Congress in Delta State, and the party 2015 governorship candidate, Olorogun O\u2019tega Emerhor has condemned the arrest and harassment of some APC members and chieftains by men of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS while Dr. Christopher Ominimini says those invaded his home wants to assassinate him \u00a0The APC leader, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[25,4440,1099,2992],"class_list":["post-17479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-state","tag-apc","tag-dr-christopher-ominimini","tag-otega-emerhor","tag-sars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/EMERHOR.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-4xV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17489,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions\/17489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}