Immediate past governor of
Benue State, Dr. Gabriel
Suswam yesterday described
as fictitious and laughable the
reports suggesting that he
was arrested in London for
allegedly beating his wife,
Yemisi.
Suswan, who said he had
been in Germany since he left
Nigeria on vacation claimed
the reports was the
handiwork of politicians in the
state, bent on tarnishing his
reputation.
He urged Nigerians to
disregard propaganda against
him by those, who, he said
have sworn to stop at nothing
to belittle what he achieved in
Benue state despite the
monumental problems which
his administration inherited
when he came on board in
2007.
In a statement personally
signed by him, Suswam
cautioned that there should
be a limit to falsehood.
According to the report in an
online medium, the former
governor was purportedly
arrested by the Metropolitan
Police Domestic Violence
Officers for battering his wife.
He was booked into the
London detention centre for
several hours before an
unidentified judge set a
£5000 bail bound which he
met before being released.
But describing the report as
fictitious, Suswam denied ever
going to London, saying he
had been in Germany with his
wife on vacation, even as he
challenged authors of the
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.”
On the claim that his wife’s
trauma was as a 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
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?”
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, Suswam said it was still
the recent series of
unsubstantiated ‘Tales by
Moonlight’ designed to
portray the former First Lady
as descending into such a 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.”
The former governor
described the report about
Yemisi’s involved in carting
away items like bedsheets,
amplified by their paid agents
in other fora “as absolutely
absurd and irresponsible
journalism.”

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