Alleged Assassination Plot: Wike Still Enjoys Immunity, Says Lai Mohammed

The information minister said this while briefing journalists after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. According to him, the last time he (Lia Mohammed) made a similar allegation, he was invited to the Force Headquarters, but in Wike’s case, he is immune to such. “I think one of the beauty of being a governor is that you enjoy immunity from prosecution and arrest because I remember that a couple of years ago when I made a similar allegation, I was invited to the Force Headquarters,” he said. Wike who made the allegations on Sunday had said that there was a plot to assassinate him in a crowd and the perpetrators had planned to report the case as an “accidental discharge”. Also in response to the comments by the Information Minister on Wednesday, he expressed shock that rather than say that the weighty intelligence report will be duly investigated, the Minister of Information seemed to have trivialized the matter. He said: “They don’t care about the issue of the protection of lives and property. That is why people are killed in their numbers every day. “But I will not be slaughtered easily. They will not succeed in their plot,” Wike said. Meanwhile, also as part of the resolutions at the FEC meeting, the Minister of Interior Abdulraman Dambazzau, said the Council approved over N580million for the creation of a Data Communications Command and Control Centre to synchronize all databases at the Nigerian Immigration Service in the interest of national security.]]>