CHIKE OKONKWO WROTE: The president may confront the ( G7) governors today, with some intelligence reports showing their alleged clandestine plans to sustain an anti-federal government campaign among the northern populace. One of such secret information available to the Presidency, according to sources within the intelligence community, showed that on November 10, one Alhaji Shehu Ashaka, a prominent businessman based in Kano, was invited to the Sokoto State Government Lodge in Abuja where he met the state governor, who allegedly requested his assistance in the setting up of a strategic team comprising three prominent northerners , namely, Saleh Hassan, Nasiru Mamman (a former Chief Justice), and Bello Kirfi (Waziri Bauchi). THISDAY intelligence sources said the team was expected to go round the northern states to try to convince the public there that the Jonathan administration did not mean well for the region and there was, thus, an urgent need to rally the grassroots and elite support for the G7 governors to discredit the president. The sources alleged that the businessman declined the job, stating that he is too old for the delicate task. But it was gathered that Hassan, who met Ashaka in the lodge before he left, allegedly accepted the offer. The sources claimed that $100,000 was earmarked for the campaign.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:17:40 +0000
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