Ciroma’s aide denies plot to poison Jonathan
By Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja
Monday, 14 Mar 2011

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A former national youth leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, who is a secretariat worker in the Northern Leaders Political Forum, Mallam Farouk Bibi Farouk, said on Sunday that there was no plan to poison President Goodluck Jonathan.


Farouk, who also served as Director of Youths in the disbanded Atiku Campaign Organisation, was arrested by the State Security Service.


Farouk and the Secretary of the forum, Mallam Bello Abdulkadir, were arrested on Thursday. But while Abdulkardir was released on Friday, Farouk was not.


However, in a statement made available to our correspondent on Sunday, Farouk said operatives of the SSS confronted him with allegation that he was at a meeting where a plan on how to poison the President was hatched.


He said the operatives asked him if there was any plan to poison the president if he wins the presidential election so as to shorten his tenure, an accusation he said he denied.


According to the statement, “I vehemently denied this allegation and still insist that I have not attended any meeting in Kaduna on the said date, and I was not at Kaduna on the said date.


“I also insist that I have never discussed nor participated in a meeting or ever by any chance overheard conservation where such a wicked and malicious allegation was ever discussed in my life.


“I heard of such a thing for the first, that evening in the premises of the State Security Services.


“I was made to write a statement to that effect the following day March 11 2011 in which I rejected this allegation and I gave details of every meeting I could recollect I have attended at Kaduna since last year and the discussion I could recollect that were made in these meeting and the persons I can remember, who attended the these meetings.”


He said he was not allowed to his lawyers while under detention by the SSS, but said he was treated with the “utmost decorum and respect.”


He said he is a secretariat staff of the NLPF and that he also believes in the group’s stand on zoning.


He, however, said he did not habour any personal grudge against President Jonathan.

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