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

Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed has said that the Rivers State Governor would have been summoned over his allegations that the Federal Government had planned to assassinate him.

However, he has not – simply because he still enjoys immunity as a state governor.

The information minister said this while briefing journalists after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday.

Wike who made the allegations on Sunday had said that there was a plot to assassinate him in a crowd and that the perpetrators had planned to report the case as an “accidental discharge”.

But the Information Minister noted that the last time he (Lia Mohammed) made a similar allegation, he was invited to the Force Headquarters, however, Wike still enjoys governorship privileges that have prevented him from being arrested.

“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.

Also in response to the comments by the Information Minister on Wednesday, the Rivers State Governor expressed shock that rather than saying 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.