Police arrest suspect threatening to kill Atiku, rape his wife, daughter over presidential ambition
Police have arrested a 43-year-old suspect, Augustus Akpan who allegedly threatened to kill former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
The suspect, from Akwa Ibom, also allegedly threatened to rape and kill the 2019 presidential aspirant’s daughters and wife if he didn’t withdraw from the presidential race.
Atiku had, last week, cried out about the text messages he and his family had been receiving from a mobile number.
Police say Augustus was found in possession of one Samsung (Galaxy S6 Edge +) phone and the SIM Card he allegedly used to send the threats.
A text message Augustus allegedly sent to Atiku reads: “Turaki Atiku, we are watching you and your family, we ask you right now to withdraw from the race for Presidency, we will kill, rape your wife and daughters.
“That your ambitious and black daughter Maryam who worked at CBN and left because we were going to mess her up.
“We will molest, rape, deform her and kill her. Your daughter Fatimah the former Commissioner of Health in Adamawa State, we have a lot of information about her.
“Also pictures of her naked body, we will mess your overly prostitute wife Jennifer up. We have a lot about.
“Let Buhari run against your against your PDP members. We know that you are bigger than all those candidates in PDP. That is why we need you to step down. We will blow your plane off from the sky and we will poison you and your family.
“Atiku Abubakar, take our words for granted and watch what will happen to your family before you. You are going to see what we will do to you and your family. We know where and where your children travel to.”
Another message sent to Atiku’s wife reads: “Jennifer. Tell your husband to step down. We will blow up his plane and kill all of you his family.
“We will rape you and all his daughters and also kill all of you out there. Do not underestimate us. We know your office at 13 Danube Street Maitama.
“We will blow up the place and rape all your daughters that we know you don’t like already. Tell him to step down and forget about running for presidency.”
A similar text message was sent to the former VP’s daughter, Rukaiya.
Augustus, according to the police, was arrested at the toll-gate along Lagos-Ibadan expressway while on the run to escape arrest.
Police spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, said the suspect during interrogation, “Confessed to the crime and admitted that he resorted to the threat and intimidation when all efforts to extort money from the former Vice President were unsuccessful.
“The suspect admitted that he is a professional fraudster and not working for any political party. The suspect is fluent in English, Ibibio, Russian and Portuguese languages respectively.
“The Phone and the SIM card recovered from him were discovered to have been robbed by him from a lady who identified him as the person that robbed her few months back,” police say.
Moshood added that the suspect, further confessed that he had threatened, defrauded and extorted huge sum of money in naira and foreign currency from so many prominent personalities and their family members while posing as a FBI and CIA agent.
