A former Minister of the Federal
Capital Territory and Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives
Congress, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, in Kaduna on Friday said the withdrawal
of the security details of the Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu
Tambuwal, was a plot by the Federal Government to eliminate him(Speaker).
The former Minister, who accused
President Goodluck Jonathan of masterminding the withdrawal of Tambuwal
security aides, alleged that the Speaker was one of the targets of snipers
being purportedly groomed by agents of the government.
Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo had
in his open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan last year alleged that agents
of the Federal Government was grooming snipers that would target some prominent
Nigerians.
Speaking to newsmen after picking
his expression of interest and nomination forms as an All Progressives Congress
governorship aspirant in Kaduna on Friday, the former minister claimed
that the Speaker was one of the targets of the killer squad.
“That was why the Inspector-General
of Police, on the order of Jonathan(president), withdrew the Speaker security
aides,” he added.
Warning that no harm must befall
the Speaker, the former minister noted that it was irresponsible on the
part of the Inspector-General of Police and the Federal Government to have
withdrawn the Speaker’s security details.
The APC chief explained that
the withdrawal was done deliberately so as to pave the way for the
“killer squad” to eliminate the Speaker for defecting to the APC.
According to el-Rufai, the removal
of the Speaker’s security is part of the continuation of the Jonathan-led
government’s penchant for impunity.
The former Minister, however,
reminded the Jonathan government that impunity had limitations, saying that the
Nigeria government should learn from Burkina Faso when the people were fed up
with the government.
El-Rufai said, “The withdrawal of
Tambuwal’s security aides is on the order of the President Goodluck Jonathan.
The IG doesn’t act that way. The president ordered the IG to order the removal.
Its just the continuation of the Jonathanian impunity.
“This people have no respect for the
law. They have no respect for rules. They think they are in power to abuse
their control of coercive instruments of power and we should warn them
that impunity has limits. If anything happens to Tambuwal(Speaker), the whole
world would hold them responsible.
” He(Speaker) was on the list of
those to be taken out by snipers. So, if anything happens to him, we know that
it was done intentionally so that this will succeed.
“They should look across Burkina
Faso and see what is happening when a government overstays its welcome or
engages in wanton impunity. They should learn from history. I think it is very
irresponsible on the part of IG and the government to do that.”
He also warned the police and other
security agents to desist from being partisan in the run-up to 2015 general
elections, saying Nigerians were fed up with the current government of the
Peoples Democratic Party.
The Punch
El-Rufai accuses FG of plot to kill Tambuwal
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