By Daniel Idonor

ABUJA — THE Presidency yesterday dismissed rumours of arrest of Chief Mike Oghiadomhe, the Chief of Staff to President Goodluck Jonathan as the handiwork of political detractors who are bent on causing disaffection in the system.

In the last two days, there had been intense rumours of Chief Oghiadomhe’s purported sack, which peaked with yesterday’s “wicked rumour of his arrest by State Security Service, SSS.”

A highly placed presidency source who would not want his name in print, said: “yesterday it was the arrest of Oghiadomhe, today it is his sack and who knows what they will cook up for tomorrow?

“It is a sad way of playing politics and we encourage politicians to come out to face pure competition instead of resorting to unholy ways of pulling down political opponents.

“If they think they can be president, they should go out in very civil way and not by slandering and telling outright lies that can give them the Presidency.”

According to the Presidency, the motives of these political jobbers was designed to justify that President Jonathan actually directed one of his aides to persuade embattled MEND ex-leader, Henry Okah, to implicate northern political leaders, which the president never did.

“The group is also interested in destabilising the polity, with a view to discrediting the ability of the president in running the affairs of government.

“They are not interested in the survival of our hard earned democracy. They are evil and agents of darkness,” the presidential source said.

The presidential source said “to achieve their aims, the group has resorted to re-awakening the age-long forgotten South-North dichotomy so as to drive home their objective, hoping that when this is done, the president would have lost the massive support he is building up in the north.”