Alleged qqplan by the Zamfara State government to set ablaze, the Gusau residence of the Minister State Defence, Bello Mohammed Matawallen has been uncovered.
The plan allegedly spearheaded by some key government officials was uncovered by intelligent reports, leading to attaching some security personnel to monitor and abort the attempt.
The government officials who allegedly masterminded the grand plan to burn down the minister’s residence in the capital Gusau on Thursday morning, 1st August, disguising to be hunger protesters allegedly include the Governor’s Chief of Staff, Muktar Lugga who was captured in a photograph of the arsonists leading the implementation of burning down the Minister’s residence, Mustapha Jafaru Kaura and the Governor’s Social Media Aide, Mugira Yusuf.
The arsonists who hitherto were given N5,000 each to execute the project were also told to condemn President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government to set him up against the members of the public.
Earlier on, the knowledge that security was aware of the alleged grand plan against the minister, the state Governor, Dauda Lawal, allegedly left the state at the early hours of Wednesday for an undisclosed location in Abuja.
The Governor, who has been battling the Minister of State for Defence since taking over power from the former governor, was not happy with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for appointing the former governor as the minister.
Part of the Governor’s unsuccessful several attempts to ridicule the former governor included his alleged breakage into the former Governor’s residential houses in both Gusau and his hometown, Maradun, where valuables and personal effects were carted away by security agents on the Governor’s alleged order, just within the week the former governor handed over power to him.
The Governor reportedly confiscated vehicles belonging to the cabinet members of the former governor.
The Governor also allegedly attacked the former governor on the state Airport project and set him up against the public with sponsored serial media trial.
Governor Dauda Lawal also petitioned the former governor to EFCC, accusing him of mismanagement and misappropriation of the state funds to the tune of N70 billion.
The Governor allegedly sponsored a series of national protests at both the presidential villa and the national assembly, requiring the two arms of government to sack Matawalle from the office of the minister.
Recently, when Dauda Lawal failed in his campaign promises to tackle insecurity within two weeks upon taking over power from Matawalle, he turned up his missiles against the Minister of State for Defence, releasing a cross border gun runner, from detention to connive in linking Matawalle with banditry sponsorship in the north western region of the county.
On Thursday, the Governor allegedly ordered his officials to work with arsonists in the state to burn down the minister’s residence, as luck ran against them, some of the officials were captured on camera in the acts, as seen in the attached photos.
