Says he’s in Germany, not UK
Tobi Soniyi in Abuja
Former Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswan, Sunday said he was not arrested in London for wife beating.
His lawyer, P.H. Ogbole, who spoke in Abuja yesterday called on friends and family of the former governor to disregard the publications claiming that Suswam was arrested in the United Kingdom for beating up his wife, Yemisi.
While threatening to take legal action against those behind the falsehood, Suswam described publication alleging that he beat his wife as a calculated attempt to smear his image.
Reports circulated on the social media last week, alleging that the former governor was arrested in London by the Metropolitan Police for beating his wife over an argument about his mistress.
The report added that he was released on bail.
But Suswam however denied all the allegations which he said were the handiwork of his enemies.
The former governor described reports as the handiwork of filthy politicians in the state bent on tarnishing his hard earned reputation.
He urged Nigerians to disregard the latest “mendacious propaganda” against him “by those who have sworn to stop at nothing to belittle what” he had achieved in the state despite the monumental problems which his administration inherited when he came on board in 2007.
Suswam, who cautioned that there should be a limit to falsehood, noted that “when people make unsubstantiated allegation,” people begin to marvel as to where the information is coming from”
Describing the report as fictitious, Suswam denied ever going to London with his wife, saying he had been in Germany with his wife on vacation, even as he challenged the authors of the said report to name the street and address of his said house in London.
He added that the report was an indication that his traducers had decided to carry “defamation and slander almost too far in their latest cock and bull stories,” adding that it was “true to type of their censorious and contrarian disposition.”
He said: “This fictitious report about the incident involving me in London is full of red herring because the allegations are false, unless the authors still have plans to later inform the public that it was a home video.
“Since I and my beloved wife left the shores of Nigeria, we have never been to London. Unknown to the author of mischief, I was in Germany on a private trip with my wife at the material time.
“So where did the author of the said report and his fairy tale sources get their information from, that I was arrested in London when I was actually in Germany with my wife on vacation? I also wish to ask the masterminds of this outlandish incident to disclose the street and the number of my London house where the alleged assault took place as every house in London has identity.”
On the claim that Yemisi’s trauma was as result of the overbearing influence of her mistress, one Shidoo, Suswam said the imaginary mistress “exists only in the figment of the writers’ imagination.”
He added that while he had always considered himself most fulfilled among men when it comes to matrimonial life, his wife, “Yemisi is not only a quintessence of physical beauty, as they they themselves would helplessly admit“She is a capsule portrait of feminine perfection. So, what else would a man desire for himself as an ideal woman to warrant any thought of a second wife?
“Sponsors of negative reports and their agents against me and my family should desist from their infamous act and pursue worthwhile venture. They should know that the campaign of calumny cannot stand the test of time as my reputation and integrity are intact. My humble self, my wife and children are living in harmony,” he stated.
The former governor also refuted another report alleging that his wife and her associates drove in two large trucks to the Benue State Liaison Office in Abuja, with the intent to cart away all the expensive furnishings.
In the statement personally signed by him and made available to journalists from Germany yesterday, Suswam said it was still the recent series of unsubstantiated ‘Tales by Moonlight’ designed to portray the former First as descending so low.
He also cited another report which he said was “sponsored by the same faceless clowns “who have made the business of pulling me down their past time, that before I departed from Benue Government House, there was looting of items, including utensils”
“But I make bold to ask: Is it possible for one to destroy what he has spent his hard earned fortune and reputation in governance to build? Was it not the same Government House that both me and the incumbent Governor Samuel Ortom met for inspection and stock inventory taking and issues of concern raised and resolved before I left?,” Suswam further queried.
He added that his traducers who sponsored the said media publication “may have successfully cast a spell on only persons of their ilk with that kind of news report, but certainly not on more cerebral and responsible Nigerians”.
The former governor described the report about Yemisi involved in carting away items like bed sheets, amplified by their paid agents in other fora “as absolutely absurd and irresponsible journalism”.
He continued: “My wife is a builder not a destroyer .
They definitely can’t be talking about an immediate past Benue First Lady who while I was in office as Benue Governor spent even her personal resources in distributing the same items to the less privileged.
“With reports such as this coming from the same people who have severally made botched attempts to destroy me politically, Nigerians can now crosscheck properly whether these contortions and racketeering of falsehood that have characterised the propaganda against me thus far does not defy definition in the dictionary of calumny.
So much more convincing and impressive their campaign of calumny against me would have been if they had restricted their allegations to issues of my stewardship when I was governor.
“Concocting outlandish stories about matters relating to my personal life reveals a lot about these unscrupulous elements parading themselves as activists and advocates of good governance. They and their protégés are united by one factor: their hypocrisy. They disguise their self interest motives as public causes in order to manipulate the public’s desire for their selfish purposes.”
Suswam further explained that despite the paucity of funds during his tenure as Benue governor, “honest people in the state will never forget my husbandry of scarce resources within the permissible limits of resources available to me.
“And in spite of the financial crunch my administration witnessed due primarily to the economic melt-down still affecting many states in Nigeria, it provided the enabling environment for private businesses to thrive among others.”
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