The police have captured a 43-year-old fraudster, Augustus Akpan, for purportedly debilitating to slaughter previous Vice President Atiku Abubakar and his family in the event that he neglected to pull back from the presidential race, Punch Metro reports.
The power representative, Jimoh Moshood, in an announcement in Abuja on Wednesday, said Akpan from Edemaya town, Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, sent risk messages to Atiku, his significant other and little girl.
The speculate professedly debilitated to r*pe Atiku's better half, Jennifer and little girls, Fatima and Maryam if the Peoples Democratic Party presidential hopeful did not pull back from the race.
The police said one Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in addition to telephone and the SIM card utilized by the suspect to send the danger messages to Atiku and his relatives were recuperated.
The risk message by Akpan read to a limited extent, "Turaki Atiku, we are watching you and your family, we request that you right currently pull back from the race for Presidency.
"Give Buhari a chance to keep running against your PDP individuals. We realize that you are greater than each one of those hopefuls in PDP. That is the reason we require you to venture down. We will brush your plane off from the sky and we will harm you and your family.
"Atiku Abubakar, underestimate our words and watch what will happen to your family before you. You will perceive what we will do to you and your family. We know where and where your youngsters travel to."
The police said that the presume professed to know the homes of Atiku's girls and their developments.
On getting the objection from Atiku, Moshood said the suspect was trailed and inevitably captured by the IGP Intelligence Response Team at the toll door along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Lagos State.
"He admitted to the wrongdoing and conceded that he turned to the danger and terrorizing when all endeavors to coerce cash from the previous VP were unsuccessful.
"The presume additionally conceded in his confession booth explanation that he is an expert fraudster and not working for any political gathering. He said that his announcement in which he requested that Atiku not keep running against Buhari was only to occupy consideration," the power representative expressed.
Moshood additionally clarified that the suspect, who is familiar with English, Ibibio, Russian and Portuguese dialects, admitted that he had cheated numerous unmistakable people while acting like a Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency agent.
The police included that the telephone Akpan was gotten with was stolen from a woman who distinguished him as the individual that looted her a couple of months prior.
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