We shall take appropriate action on Akiolu – DSS

Chairperson of the Department of State Services has said that the
service was handling the matter though she refused to give the details
of the action being taken.
Ogar said, "We are taking appropriate action. Yesterday, the service
had once again warned all Nigerians not to stoke the embers of discord
within the country.
"If the presidential election had come and gone successfully, we
wouldn't want people to begin to whip up sentiments unnecessarily. So
we are handling it."
Meanwhile, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has directed a
committee comprising notable traditional rulers in the state to meet
with Oba Akiolu over the monarch's recent death threat to Ndigbo
resident in Lagos State.
Following widespread reactions to the monarch's warning to Ndigbo in
Lagos to either vote the APC governorship candidate in the state,
Akinwunmi Ambode, or risk imminent death in the lagoon, Okorocha
charged the committee, which will be led by the chairman of the Imo
State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Samuel Ohiri, with the task
of resolving the matter immediately.
The committee is expected to have a one-on-one discussion with Akiolu
over the threat and to extract a commitment from him.
The governor, who is also the chairman of the APC Governors' Forum,
noted that it was not enough to accept Akiolu's denial of threatening
Ndigbo without traditional rulers from the South-East meeting with him
to discuss the controversy and the way forward in the long existing
relationship between the Igbo in Lagos and their host community.
Also, the Imo State Peoples Democratic Party officially reacted to
Akiolu's utterance on Wednesday.
It described the monarch's threat to Ndigbo as an empty, malicious and
unwarranted threat.
In a statement released by the party, a copy of which was made
available to one of our correspondents, the Imo PDP condemned the
death threat, saying it was unacceptable.
The party wondered why a monarch would be speaking for a political party.
The party urged Ndigbo resident in Lagos and other parts of the
country to come out en masse and vote according to their conscience on
Saturday.
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