El-Rufai accuses FG of plot to kill Tambuwal

A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and Deputy National
Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, in
Kadunaon Fridaysaid 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 Kadunaon 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of Police and the Federal Government to have withdrawn the Speaker's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.