Former Minister accuses GEJ of secretly training snipers to kill some prominent Nigerians

A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, and the Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Mr. Razak Atunwa, have decried the withdrawal of the security details attached to Tambuwal by the Federal Government.

They described the withdrawal as unconstitutional and an executive rascality.

El-Rufai said it was a deliberate plot by the Federal Government to kill Tambuwal.

The former minister alleged that Tambuwal was one of the targets of snipers being purportedly trained by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo had, in an open letter to Jonathan last year, alleged that the President was training snipers for the purpose of killing some prominent Nigerians.

Addressing journalists on Friday shortly after he picked his expression of interest and nomination forms as the All Progressives Congress governorship aspirant in Kaduna State, El-Rufai insisted that Tambuwal was one of the targets of the President’s killer-squad, saying, “That was why the Inspector-General of Police, on the order of Jonathan, withdrew his security aides.”