An aide to Governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party and Member representing Degema/Bonny Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Farah Dagogo, says his principal has been taken to the hospital following complaints of health deterioration.
Dagogo was arrested about a week ago over allegations that he sponsored thugs to disrupt the screening of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) State and National Assembly aspirants for the upcoming elections.
He had since been remanded in police custody as directed by a magistrate court in Port Harcourt.
Ibrahim Lawal, Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Dagogo in a statement on Wednesday said, “Dagogo has been taken to the hospital by the Police. He complained of stomach and chest complications. He is receiving treatment now. Update will be given as the situation goes on.”
The aide had also in a statement noted that Wike and his Camp Commandant, Efeturi Irikefe were plotting to attack the State Criminal Intelligence Department (SCID) to pin it on his boss.
Lawal had also alleged that the governor was planning to harm or arrest both family members and staff of the embattled lawmaker.
The statement read in part: “This is to notify the world that the Rivers State Governor, Barr. Nyesom Wike and his Camp Commandant, Efeturi Irikefe are unrelenting in their vain attempt to pin criminal charges on Hon. Doctor Farah Dagogo, Member representing Degema/Bonny Federal Constituency and Governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State. We received from a source that Governor Wike and his Camp Commandant, Efeturi Irikefe, will stop at nothing to put Hon. Doctor Farah Dagogo in perpetual detention and they have already manufactured more charges of murder, kidnap, armed robbery, illegal bunkering, and attacks on security agencies among other trump-up charges to be hung on the neck of the Governorship hopeful.
“Having seen their initial trump-up charges flopped spectacularly and the unending backlash the Governor and his government are receiving, the Rivers State Governor and his goons, chiefly his Camp Commandant, Efeturi Irikefe, are hatching an attack on the State Criminal Investigation Department where Hon. Doctor Farah Dagogo is being illegally held and accused the Federal Lawmaker of being the mastermind all in a desperate move to change the narrative.
“The Rivers State Government, under Barr. Nyesom Wike is also planning to either harm or arrest, or execute both the families of Hon. Doctor Farah Dagogo, his staff, particularly his aides and others close to the Federal Lawmaker.”
