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Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has alleged that
there are plots by the President Mohammadu Buhari’s led government
targeting prominent personalities in the countries like ex-President
Goodluck Jonathan, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-Head of State,
Ibrahim Babangida, and Gen. TY Danjuma (retd.).
The former minister issued a statement confirming that there are plans by
the All Progressives Congress-led federal government to implicate, arrest
and detain ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.
The statement titled, “Press Statement on The Buhari Administration’s Plan
to Implicate, Detain, Silence and Possibly Kill President Olusegun
Obasanjo and Other Key Opposition Figures and Leaders in Nigeria,” read in
part: “I have read the disturbing reports about the President Muhammadu
Buhari administration’s plan to frame up, arrest and detain President
Olusegun Obasanjo on trumped-up and politically-motivated charges. It has
also been brought to my attention that they have threatened his life. I am
not surprised because this is nothing new for this government. That is
their stock in trade and they have been doing it for the last three years
to anyone and everyone that opposes or criticises them.”
Accusing President Buhari of being the brains behind the plots,
Fani-Kayode added: “What bothers me now is that President Buhari has
become so jittery that he is prepared to do anything to stay in power. I
have done my research and I have discovered that the plan is real. The
government is also planning to target other key opposition figures and
elder statesmen – as we get closer to 2019 – such as Gen. TY Danjuma, Gen.
Ibrahim Babangida, President Goodluck Jonathan and a handful of others. It
appears that Buhari will stop at nothing in order to ensure that all his
critics are silenced.
“The plan to implicate and silence all these leaders together with key
figures in the PDP like Ayo Fayose, Emmanuel Udom, Ibrahim Dankwabo,
Nyesom Wike, Darius Ishaku, Godswill Akpabio, David Mark, Ike Ekweremadu,
Lyel Imoke, Uche Secondus, Sule Lamido, Ibrahim Shekarau, Abubakar
Suleiman, Kabiru Turaki, David Jang, Atiku Abubakar, Dele Belgore, Jumoke
Akinjide, Nenadi Usman and others is condemnable. They also plan to give
some of us the Nnamdi Kanu treatment and make us dissapear or give us the
Sambo Dasuki and El Zakzaky treatment and lock us up indefinitely but they
will fail.”
The Peoples Democratic Party’s chieftain accused the president of being
desperate to the extent of attempting to “discredit and destroy” key
members of the APC like Bukola Saraki, Yakubu Dogara, Dino Melaye, Rabiu
Kwankwaso, Abubakar Baraje, Aminu Tambuwal, AbdulFatah Ahmed, Timi Frank
and others.
The statement added: “Nigeria is fast becoming a fascist police state
where dissent is seen as a crime and where those that oppose the President
are perceived as enemies of the state and prisoners of war. Taking this
matter to a level of threatening the lives and liberty of people like
Obasanjo, Danjuma, Babangida, Jonathan and other elder statesmen and
seeking to destroy key opposition figures for no just cause is dangerous
and unacceptable and it will have consequences.
“We do not want war in Nigeria: we want peace and the Buhari government
should desist from provoking a situation and a series of events that may
end up spiralling out of control. It is almost as if they are begging for
war and that is tragic. They may have the full machinery and power of the
Federal Government but we have the living God. Nothing can stop us in our
divine mission to stop him and rescue Nigeria.”