My life under threat – Walid Jibrin
Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Senator Walid Jibrin, has raised an alarm over threat to his life.
Jibrin, in a statement issued in Kaduna said shortly after he was discharged from hospital where he was on admission as a result of a stroke attack, he started receiving strange calls demanding huge amounts of money from him.
He said: “Since the first call where the caller identified himself as a journalist and demanded a huge amount of money from me, I have constantly been bombarded with series of such calls, all threatening my life.
“These were later followed by a number of anonymous text messages and calls claiming they are from very reputable editors of media houses in the country and all asking me to send them some millions of naira to stop a purported damaging report on me from being published.”
The PDP BOT chairman said though he has disregarded the content of the alleged story as they are clearly spurious and lacking in substance, the frequency of the calls has become irritating and is affecting his chances of full recovery.
“As a former journalist who served at the Nigeria Broadcasting Service (NBS), in Lagos under Christopher Kolade and later transferred to Maiduguri, I am appealing to these people to stop spoiling the name of our reputable editors who are working round the clock to ensure the dissemination of credible information to the society by not dragging their names in the attempt to dupe unsuspecting and law abiding members of the society.
“Journalism is a noble profession which should be practiced with decency, decorum and high sense of responsibility,” he said.
Jibrin said the evidence of such threats and calls have been fully recorded and submitted to security agencies while the editors whose names were being used have been alerted and fully informed about what is going on.
He warned those behind the threats to be aware that what they are doing is criminal, saying their case would be treated as such when they are eventually traced and nabbed by the investigating authorities.