FOR the second time in a month, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Friday accused the Federal Government of plotting to arrest and silence its national leader and former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
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The Federal Government, the ACN alleged, plans to put Tinubu out of circulation to check his rising political profile and demobilise the ACN ahead of April's general election.
The party had on December 5 last year alerted Nigerians to "the surreptitious and dangerous moves being made to silence Tinubu."
A few days later, the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) chair, Sam Saba, said the CCB would dust up against Tinubu, a case of keeping a foreign account while in office. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had earlier investigated the case without any evidence against the former governor.
National Publicity Secretary and Spokesman of the ACN, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, told reporters in Lagos Friday that President Goodluck Jonathan had finally succumbed to the "unceasing pressure by signing on to the evil plan."
Mohammed said: "Now, we have it on a good authority that the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, (Mr. Mohammed Adoke), has been under tremendous pressure to look for any offence, no matter how flimsy, to get Tinubu arrested and prosecuted – just to put him away." He alleged that the President "may sign a warrant of Tinubu's arrest anytime from now."
He warned: "We will not sit back and fold our arms while those who fought for the democracy we are enjoying today are demonised and decapitated. We reject the targeting of Tinubu, who they see as the architect of the change that is threatening the PDP.
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