APC chiefs on FG’s security watch list: SECURITY agencies have put some national leaders of the opposition All Progressives Congress on the watch list, a top government official said on Sunday. The official, who asked not to be named, confided in selected journalists in Abuja that the APC leaders could be picked up by security agents in case any untoward incident occurred following the threats allegedly issued by the politicians over the impeachment of Adamawa State ex-governor, Murtala Nyako. The source said the Federal Government would not hesitate to order the arrest of the unnamed opposition leaders “if they do not desist from the campaign of calumny they are currently embarking against President Goodluck Jonathan over Nyako’s ouster.” Nyako was removed from office by the state legislators over allegations of gross misconduct. The National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, had at a press conference on Wednesday last week accused Jonathan of being behind Nyako’s removal. Also, a national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, had on Friday reiterated Odigie-Oyegun’s claim, adding that Nyako attracted Jonathan’s wrath for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party and for writing a memo to governors in the northern states. Nyako had, in the memo referred to by Tinubu, accused the President of carrying out genocide against the North in the government’s ongoing war against terror. But the government source, who spoke to journalists on Sunday, said the security report available to the government showed “clearly” the underhand dealings of the APC leaders shortly before the governor was removed. He claimed that intelligence reports revealed that two APC governors, one from the North and the other from the South, approached some members of the Adamawa State House Assembly with financial inducements to the tune of N250m each for them to scuttle the move to remove the governor. He explained that out of the 25 state lawmakers, five were with Nyako while two travelled at the time the impeachment process scaled through. The government official added that the APC governors (names withheld) succeeded in buying one lawmaker over, and that attempts were made to buy one or two more so that the number of lawmakers required for the governor to be removed would not be achieved. The government official also said that when it became clear to the APC chiefs that they would not be able to buy the lawmakers over, they resorted to threats. The source said, “It was the assurance that they got from the lawmaker that more members would be bought over that gave birth to the reports then that Nyako might resign. PRIME CHRONICLE
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 05:35:07 +0000
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