The Nigeria Police Force has paraded Augustus Akpan who threatened to rape and kill the wife and daughters of Peoples Democratic Party presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, if he did not end his ambition.
Akpan, 43, who hails from Edemaya village, Ikot Abasi LGA, Akwa Ibom state was arrested with one Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge plus mobile phone and the SIM card used by him to send the threat messages to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, his wife and daughter.
The Threat Text Messages
i. Text Message to Fmr Vice President, Alh. Atiku Abubakar GCON
“Turaki Atiku, we are watching you and your family, we ask you right now to withdraw from the race for Presidency, we will kill and rape your wife and daughters. That your ambitious black daughter Maryam who worked at CBN and left because we were going to mess her up.
We will molest, rape, deform 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.
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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. We have watched your daughter who is a strong supporter of her father (your daughter Maryam) at number 5, Buzi Close and number 5, Lake Maracaibo Close”.
ii. Text Message to Wife of Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar GCON,Jennifer
Tell your husband to step down. We will blow up his plane and kill all of you in 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 step daughters that we know you don’t like already. Tell him to step down now and forget about running for the presidency’’
iii. Text Message to Daughter of Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar GCON, Rukaiya Atiku
“Tell your dad to step down. He should forget about the Presidency. If he refuses, we will blow up his plane the Gulf Stream from the sky and also rape you and kill of his daughters. No amount of Police or protection will stop us. We know where all of you live in. We know number 5 Buzi close and number 5, Lake Maracaibo close. Try us and blood shall spread’’
Police PRO, Jimoh Moshood noted that on receipt of complaint of threat and intimidation from Atiku, Akpan was trailed and eventually arrested by the IGP Intelligence Response Team.
“The suspect, Augustus Akpan was arrested at toll-gate along Lagos-Ibadan express way, Lagos State, while on the run to escape arrest,” Moshood said in a statement.
“During interrogation, he 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.”
Police explained that the suspect, Augustus Akpan also admitted in his confessional statement that he is a professional fraudster and not working for any political party, that he wrote “Let Buhari run against your against your PDP members” in his threat message to the former vice president was merely to divert attention.
“The suspect is fluent in English, Ibibio, Russian and Portuguese languages respectively.”
Police noted that, “The phone and the SIM card he used for the threat and intimidation were recovered from him and were discovered to have been robbed by him from a lady (name withheld) who identified him as the person that robbed her few months back.”
The suspect, Augustus Akpan 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 an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent.
Investigation is being concluded and suspect will be arraigned in court on completion of investigation.
