The Department of State Services has
said that it is taking appropriate action over the alleged threat of
Ndigbo in Lagos by Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu.
Answering questions at the National
Information Centre in Abuja on Wednesday, spokesperson for the secret
service, Marylyn Ogar, said the service was handling the matter though
she refused to give the details of the action being taken.
Ogar said, “We are taking appropriate
action. Yesterday, the service had once again warned all Nigerians not
to stoke the embers of discord within the country.
“If the presidential election had come
and gone successfully, we wouldn’t want people to begin to whip up
sentiments unnecessarily. So we are handling it.”
Meanwhile,
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has directed a committee
comprising notable traditional rulers in the state to meet with Oba
Akiolu over the monarch’s recent death threat to Ndigbo resident in
Lagos State.
Following widespread reactions to the
monarch’s warning to Ndigbo in Lagos to either vote the APC governorship
candidate in the state, Akinwunmi Ambode, or risk imminent death in the
lagoon, Okorocha charged the committee, which will be led by the
chairman of the Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Samuel
Ohiri, with the task of resolving the matter immediately.
The committee is expected to have a one-on-one discussion with Akiolu over the threat and to extract a commitment from him.
The governor, who is also the chairman
of the APC Governors’ Forum, noted that it was not enough to accept
Akiolu’s denial of threatening Ndigbo without traditional rulers from
the South-East meeting with him to discuss the controversy and the way
forward in the long existing relationship between the Igbo in Lagos and
their host community.
Also, the Imo State Peoples Democratic Party officially reacted to Akiolu’s utterance on Wednesday.
The party described the monarch’s threat to Ndigbo as an empty, malicious and unwarranted threat.
In a statement released by the party, a
copy of which was made available to one of our correspondents, the Imo
PDP condemned the death threat, saying it was unacceptable.
The party wondered why a monarch would be speaking for a political party.
It urged Ndigbo resident in Lagos and
other parts of the country to come out en masse and vote according to
their conscience on Saturday.
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