A document has uncovered how Nigeria’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, and other Muslim leaders plotted to assassinate former Kaduna State Governor Patrick Yakowa.
It was unclear whether the conclusion of the Muslim leaders was responsible for the helicopter crash that killed Mr Yakowa,
It was gathered that the minister did not immediately return a request seeking comments on Wednesday night.
Kaduna, with a dominant Muslim population, had Mr Yakowa as its first Christian governor.
It was further seen from the document that Pantami chaired the July 13, 2010, meeting of Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), a foremost Islamic body led by Sultan of Sokoto Sa’ad Abubakar, where it was agreed that Mr Yakowa and his family must be eliminated because he was a Christian leader leading a state in the Muslim-dominated North.
Pantami and other leaders said in their communique adopted at the meeting held at Bauchi Central Mosque.
He said:
We must either use the security or other means to eliminate the governor, his family and all those they perceive as supporting him.
The meeting complained that Mr Yakowa was making moves to contest for governor in 2011 and he had the support of former President, Goodluck Jonathan, a fellow Christian.
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Mr Yakowa became governor in 2010 when Jonathan tapped Namadi Sambo, the then Kaduna governor, as his vice-president.
Mr Yakowa contested in 2011 and won a substantive four-year term. He was killed in a helicopter crash barely a year later in 2012, alongside former national security adviser Owoye Andrew Azazi.
The event had long been suspected to be more than just an accident, and investigation into what happened was never concluded or made public.
The minister did not immediately return a request seeking comments about the 2010 meeting, report said.
Document about the meeting surfaced as Pantami came under pressure to step down from office after details of his past inflammatory statements were uncovered. The minister said he was always happy about the massacre of unbelievers.
He also said Osama Bin Laden was a better Muslim than himself and wished Al Qaeda and the Taliban success in their terrorism.
See full document below:
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Minutes of Meeting of JNI Chaired by Isa Pantami pic.twitter.com/3dT7vcb20H— Great Oracle (@AbdulMahmud01) April 21, 2021
