May 29: ‘Corrupt Politicians Planning To Flee Nigeria’

Coalition of Northern Groups said it is worried by the growing uncertainties created by some forces in the country over the May 29 transition to a new administration at the centre.

The northern youths noted that the Directorate of State Services (DSS), military high command and the Nigeria Police Force have all raised concern over the issues raised over the May 29 swearing in date without visible proactive measures put in place to nip them in the bud.

Briefing newsmen at a press conference, spokesman of the northern youths, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, alleged that some top officials of the outgoing administration are planning to leave the country ahead of the handover date in a bid to cover-up their ‘serial misconduct in office’ and to avoid being called to account.

Suleiman said his group is worried by reports that a top banker who has held one of the most important offices in the country is alleged to be among those planning to flee abroad.

On Monday, May 15, 2023, the Nigeria Police headquarters confirmed that plots to scuttle the May 29 official inauguration of the new administration of the President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and governors at the state level would not hold water, threatening to deal with those behind such nefarious moves.

“We observe also that two weeks earlier, the Defence Headquarters had raised the same alarm that some individuals are plotting with foreign collaborators to disrupt the May 29 inauguration and vowed to track them down, the Department of State Services (DSS) had confirmed a clandestine plot by some politicians to derail the handover and install an interim government in Nigeria,” he said.

The spokesperson of CNG said the allegations are growing strong of the banker’s planned study leave abroad, presumably to escape Nigeria before the inauguration and avoid questions around alleged terrorism financing, other economic and financial misdemeanors and the introduction of the currency redesign policy in a bid to create obstacles for Tinubu during the presidential campaign which ended up in mass national suffering and confusion.

“We note some state governors represented by Mohammed Matawalle of Zamfara State have raised the alarm that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Chairman plans an unjust isolated probe of only outgoing governors while excluding the Federal Government functionaries and even the Presidency,” Suleiman stated on behalf of the group.

The coalition urged the DSS to take proactive action to checkmate the maneuvers of perpetrators of the evil scheme and, most importantly, to trace and expose the extent of the plot, arrest and prosecute not only the executors of the plot, but its sponsors and all individuals or groups in anyway linked to it.

“That Nigerians would not be disposed to accepting situations deliberately caused by vested personal interests, under whatever guise, that potentially threaten destruction and collective mayhem, or bring about greater conflicts that could lead to mass killings and suffering of innocent people,” he said.

The spokesman said anybody or group found remotely involved with the financing, direct execution or concealing information on this sinister and diabolic scheme, should be treated appropriately as a treasonable felon and enemy of the state and fellow citizens.