Ogu/Bolo Boss Alleges Plot To Assassinate Him

The Caretaker Committee Chairman of Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area, Rivers State, and the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the area, Hon. Mina Tende, has accused the leader of the anti-Amaechi lawmakers, Hon. Evans Bipi, of plotting to assassinate him.
Tende explained that he had resorted to hiding in order not to be hacked down by gunmen who might have been hired by the lawmaker.
The council boss, who spoke on yesterday, said Bipi, who is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had never hidden his (Bipi) resolve to eliminate him, stating that his trouble with the lawmaker started when he cautioned that billboards and posters belonging to the APC should not be destroyed.
Explaining that he wrote a petition on the matter to President Goodluck Jonathan, the police and other security agencies, Tende recalled that he had escaped an attempt on his life few days ago by suspected thugs working for the lawmaker.
According to him, the lawmaker had boasted at different occasions that he (Bipi) has security agents at his disposal to intimidate his political enemies during the general election.
He said, “When they could not get me, they descended on my personal assistant and gave him the beating of his life, including a knife cut on his face. My life is under threat because I insisted that APC billboards should not be demolished by agents of the PDP in my area. Because I said there should be no interference in the activities of my great party (APC), that was why they have listed me as one of those to be eliminated. The PDP leader in my area, Hon. Evans Bipi, personally told me that he must assassinate or kidnap me before or after election.
Reacting to the allegation against him, Bipi, who spoke in a telephone interview with our source, described Tende’s claim as false and added that he had never contemplated killing any person in his life.
Bipi said the APC chieftain was blackmailing him in order to get cheap popularity and persuade the state Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to extend his tenure as a council chairman.