‘How Pantami Plotted Assassination Of Patrick Yakowa’ – Peoples Gazette
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Document shows how Pantami plotted assassination of former Kaduna Governor Patrick Yakowa – Peoples Gazette
A document has been uncovered which
showed how President Muhammadu
Buhari’s communication minister 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, and the minister did not
immediately return a request seeking
comments from Peoples Gazette on
Wednesday night.
Mr Yakowa was the first Christian governor
of Kaduna, which is divided between Muslim
and Christians, although with a mostly
Muslim population.
Mr Pantami chaired the July 13, 2010,
meeting of Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), a
foremost Isla mic 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.
“We must either use the security or other
means to eliminate the governor, his family
and all those they perceive as supporting
him,” Mr Pantami and other leaders said in
their communique adopted at the meeting
held at Bauchi Central Mosque.
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.
Mr Yakowa became governor in 2010 when
Mr Jonathan tapped Namadi Sambo, 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 Owoeye Patrick 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.
Document about the meeting surfaced as
Mr Pantami came under pressure to step
down from office after The Gazette
uncovered details of his past inflammatory
statements. 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.
Source:- Gazette ngr