2019: FG plotting arrest of IBB, Jonathan, Danjuma, others leaders – Fani-Kayode

Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani Kayode, has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal government is planning to persecute and arrest key opposition figures and elder statesmen ahead of the 2019 general elections.
He listed among many high profile persons being targeted to include former Military President retired General Ibrahim Babangida, former President Goodluck Jonathan and retired General T.Y. Danjuma, some PDP serving and ex-governors, and a handful of others.
He said apart from haunting opposition leaders and elder statesmen, the APC-led federal government is discrediting and destroying key members of its own party.
The member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) also said the alarm raised by the former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the APC-led federal government has plotted to frame him up, was not a false alarm.
Chief Fani-Kayode in a statement he personally signed said the President Muhammadu Buhari government has become jittery because of the approaching 2019 general elections and the likely rejection by the electorate and was therefore ready to suppress rising oppositions.
“I am not surprised because this is nothing new for this government.
That is their stock in trade and they have been doing it for the last three years to anyone and everyone that opposes or criticises them.
“What bothers me now is that President Buhari has become so jittery that he is prepared to do anything to stay in power.
I have done my research and I have discovered that the plan is real.
It appears that Buhari will stop at nothing in order to ensure that all his critics are silenced.
“The plan to implicate and silence all these leaders together with key figures in the PDP like Ayo Fayose, Emmanuel Udom, Ibrahim Dankwabo, Nyesom Wike, Darius Ishaku, Godswill Akpabio, David Mark, Ike Ekweremadu, Lyle Imoke, Uche Secondus, Sule Lamido, Ibrahim Shekarau, Abubakar Suleiman, Kabiru Turaki, David Jang, Atiku Abubakar, Dele Belgore, Jumoke Akinjide, Nenadi Usman and others is condemnable.
“They also plan to give some of us the Nnamdi Kanu treatment and make us dissapear or give us the Sambo Dasuki and El Zak Zaky treatment and lock us up indefinitely, but they will fail”, he said.
The former minister, who is still facing some allegations, said the desperation of the federal government could be seen in its haunting of key oppositions officers of its government considered to be against some of its policies.
“Such is Buhari’s desperation that he is even attempting to discredit and destroy key members of his own party like Bukola Saraki, Yakubu Dogara, Dino Melaye, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Abubakar Baraje, Aminu Tambuwal, Abdul Fatah Ahmed, Timi Frank and others.
“Nobody is safe anymore.
Not even legislators, media houses, journalists, bloggers, religious organisations or NGO’s that oppose or criticise the federal government.
“Nigeria is fast becoming a fascist police state where dissent is seen as a crime and where those that oppose the President are perceived as enemies of the state and prisoners of war”, he said.
The former minister warned that “Let it be clearly understood that we will not sit by idly and allow Buhari to continue to threaten, harass and intimidate all those who oppose him.
We are not intimidated and we have no fear.
Governments come and go and no matter what he does Buhari will not be there forever.
“Taking this matter to a level of threatening the lives and liberty of people like Obasanjo, Danjuma, Babangida, Jonathan and other elder statesmen and seeking to destroy key opposition figures for no just cause is dangerous and unacceptable and it will have consequences”.

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