ARREST OF MR. STANLEY NSEMO – APC HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY CANDIDATE FOR CALABAR MUNICIPALITY STATE CONSTITUENCY:
SETTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT
- The Stanley Nsemo Campaign Solidarity Front aims to set the records straight regarding the arrest of their Principal, Mr. Stanley Nsemo.
- The group reiterates the innocence of Mr. Stanley Nsemo questioning how the confiscation of the total sum less than N450,000 (adding both the naira notes and the dollar equivalent confiscated) could be stretched to infer vote buying.
*The group calls on the candidate\’s teeming supporters and well wishers of the candidate to keep the faith and massively vote Mr. Nsemo for effective representation and to birth the Cross River State of their dream.
The Stanley Nsemo Campaign Solidarity Front wishes to react to the widely circulated and sensational arrest of our principal and APC House of Assembly Candidate for Calabar Municipality State Constituency – Mr. Stanley Nsemo.
THE FACTS
Some time at about 11am on Saturday 25th February 2023 during the Presidential Elections, our principal was at his family home at No. 5 Johnson Ishie Street, Ishie Town, Calabar with uncles, aunties and other family members when suddenly officers of the EFCC entered into the house and immediately began searching the house turning over every furniture in the residence.
By the time the search was over the total sum of N156,800 (One Hundred and Fifty-Six Thousand Eight Hundred Naira and a total sum of $495 (Four Hundred and Ninety Five) dollars each was found in the house and confiscated. If the Dollar currency is converted to its naira equivalent, the total sum found and confiscated is below the total sum of N450, 000 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) only.
The EFCC officers insisted that our principal and his relative, Ms. Eno Kenneth Amponsah must accompany them to the State Housing Police Station to make statements – a directive our principal as a law abiding citizen willingly complied with. At the station the officers insisted on taking pictures of our principal and his relative – only to immediately post same on their platform which pictures immediately went viral.
OUR QUERY
The Stanley Nsemo Campaign Solidarity Front would like to state as follows that:
- It is not a crime under Nigerian laws to have money in the house. Indeed we are not speaking of large sums of stored cash but a sum less then N450,000 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) in total, made up of N156,800 (One Hundred and Fifty-Six Thousand Eight Hundred Naira and a total sum of $495 (Four Hundred and Ninety Five) US dollars.
- The paltry sum N450, 000 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) only when the naira and Dollar amounts (its naira equivalent) are added together cannot be reasonably inferred to be kept in the house for purposes of vote buying. No matter how much we stretch our imagination. Recall that the total confiscated amount are N156,800 (One Hundred and Fifty-Six Thousand Eight Hundred Naira and a total sum of $495 (Four Hundred and Ninety Five) US dollars.
A WELL SCRIPTED CAMPAIGN OF CALUMNY
Our detractors have since gone to town creating sensational reportage regarding the unfortunate event and waging a campaign of calumny against the overwhelming success of our principal in the forth coming State Assembly Elections. The aim of this well orchestrated campaign is to cause disenchantment among our supporters and indeed the good people of Calabar Municipality State Constituency; to damage the hard earned integrity/reputation of our principal and further more to diminish the ever growing popularity and acceptability of our principal in the forthcoming elections.
However, we have bad news for them – they have failed.
Any reasonable person can see that there isn\’t much to the EFCC case and that our principal is innocent of the accusations. For one, there are enough eye witnesses to the fact that the search and confiscation of cash in our principal\’s family home took place at Ikot Ishie and not at any polling unit whatsoever. Likewise the total sum less than N450,000 (made up of N156,800 (One Hundred and Fifty-Six Thousand Eight Hundred Naira and a total sum of $495 (Four Hundred and Ninety Five) US dollars) confiscated from our principal\’s family home cannot by any stretch of imagination be inferred to have been procured for vote buying.
A good name is earned by sheer grit of hard work and integrity. These twin characters which our principal has long be known for cannot vanish in a day.
OUR MANDATE
We call on all our well wishers and affiliated campaign support groups who have inundated us with calls and goodwill messages to keep the faith and burn the flames of our campaign ever so brighter. Success in sure.
Our principal remains undaunted; ours have been a campaign underlined by integrity, the vast experience of our principal and his enviable success in private and public positions as well as debating sublime issues affecting the good people of Calabar Municipality State Constituency – we shall not tilt nor loose fucus.
Our mandate is to deliver effective representation for the people of Calabar Municipality State Constituency, especially the common man on our streets, nothing short of that is acceptable.
We call on the good people of Calabar Municipality State Constituency to come out en masse to overwhelmingly vote Mr. Stanley Nsemo for the Calabar Municipality State constituency. It is our firm belief that united as a people – we can build the Cross River State of our dreams.
Stanley Nsemo Campaign Solidarity Front
