{"id":2302,"date":"2019-01-12T17:57:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T17:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2019-01-12T17:57:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T17:57:42","slug":"igp-plotting-to-kill-me-saraki-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/igp-plotting-to-kill-me-saraki-alleges","title":{"rendered":"IGP plotting to kill me \u2013 Saraki alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President, Bukola Saraki has raised alarm that the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris was after his life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-13\"><\/div>\n<p>Saraki, who is the Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation (PPCO), raised the allegation at a press conference this evening in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He called on the international authorities to hold Idris responsible if anything bad happened to him or members of his family.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-14\"><\/div>\n<p>Saraki also alleged the IGP had tried \u201cseveral tricks to implicate him in some criminal charges, the first being the arrest of some cultists who were being compelled to claim they worked for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cLater, he went on to the Offa robbery case and politicized the investigation in order to rope me. In the process of forcing suspects to implicate me, the principal suspect died in their custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has also not succeeded with that plot. Who knows what else he may have planned?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-15\"><\/div>\n<p>Saraki, a former governor of Kwara state, continued, \u201cWe need to make it clear to the entire world that now that ward to ward campaigns is about to begin in the state and I am set to participate in that grassroots campaign as I have always done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody is sure what instructions Mr. Idris has given to the police command in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThus, the entire world should hold the IGP responsible if anything untoward happens to members of my family and myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-20\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President, Bukola Saraki has raised alarm that the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris was after his life. 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