Federal Government Planning To Frame Atiku For Herdsmen Attacks

On June 25th, 2018, we received intelligence report from trusted personnel of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) of a grand plot by top politicians within the Presidency to link the unabating herdsmen attacks across the country to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

While we trust the efficiency of these individuals, we decided to keep calm so as not to heighten the already tension-soaked political  atmosphere across the country and the security implications of this, hoping that the proponents of this evil plot will perhaps give room for their conscience and look for a potent solution to ending the massacres across the country rather than take an easy road of politicizing their obvious security failures.

However, we were presented with documents detailing the same plot by personnel of another intelligence agency last week.

In the new report, the Federal Government acting through the security and intelligence agencies opened phony accounts in Atiku name linking a funding scheme between the accounts and militias from North Africa. The detailed reports also showed written and video confession of intelligence agents disguised as arrested herdsmen linking the former  Vice President to the attacks across Nigeria.

We find this sinister plot as obnoxious, the height of crude politics, a decimation of our societal values and conscious assault of our hard earned democracy. It is distasteful the level politicians are now willing to go to in order to hold on to power even without legitimacy.

There are better and definitely more dignifying ways to win elections rather than descend to sinister motives, blackmail and intimidation of political opponents.

We state unequivocally that Waziri Adamawa does not in any way have any connection whatsoever with any militia or herdsmen group anywhere in the world.

We believe that if the Federal Government takes so much time and resources deployed into perfecting this evil endeavour to proffer solutions to the consistent attacks across the country, the lives of Nigerians would have counted for something.