Wike’s aide tackles Sowore over alleged assassination plot

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA: Senior Special Assistant connected Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Lere Olayinka, has dismissed allegations by activistic and SaharaReporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, that President Bola Tinubu and Minister Nyesom Wike were plotting to assassinate him.

In a connection issued connected Saturday successful Abuja, Olayinka described Sowore’s claims arsenic “mind games” and a ploy to prolong his lifestyle, insisting that neither the President nor the FCT Minister had immoderate crushed to people the activist.

According to him, Sowore should alternatively absorption connected defending himself successful his ongoing transgression proceedings alternatively than making “reckless allegations” against nationalist leaders.

“If determination is immoderate menace to the beingness of Sowore, it indispensable beryllium from those helium has blackmailed. He should permission President Tinubu and the FCT Minister retired of the impending repercussions of his lifestyle,” Olayinka said.

The minister’s adjutant dismissed Sowore’s caller criticisms of Wike, describing them arsenic “the past footwear of a dying horse” and an effort to “play the victim” up of the consequences of his ineligible battles.

“All the sound helium has been making astir Wike successful the past 48 hours is conscionable portion of his accustomed caput games. He knows the gravity of the charges against him,” Olayinka added.

Olayinka maintained that Sowore’s allegations of an assassination crippled were baseless, stressing that the activistic was lone being haunted by his ain grounds of controversies.

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