Presidency In Fresh Bid To Blackmail Kwankwaso, Wamakko, Amaechi, Nyako, Others…iReports-ng.com Obtains Script Against Govs

Barely 24 hours after iReports-ng.com exposed a plot by the presidency to sponsor some reports in some Nigerian newspapers to blackmail the G7 governors in the new PDP faction, our reporters in Abuja have stumbled another news item prepared and handed out to some journalists today to further paint the aggrieved governors as corrupt elements seeking for protection from the anti-graft agencies, EFCC and ICPC.

Below is a copy of the prepared report given out to journalists in Abuja today for publication in the newspapers tomorrow. A political editor with a south west based newspaper had been paid $250,000 cash yesterday to handle the job. Read below the blackmail script obtained by one of our reporters in Abuja today:

“It emerged on Tuesday that the aggrieved governors of the PDP decided to seek a postponement of the peace parley scheduled for Tuesday as a result of President Goodluck Jonathan’s rejection of the suggestion that the government should put an immediate stop to probe of state governments’ accounts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

“Sources in the party confirmed that the aggrieved governors, many of whom attended the Sunday night meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja had expressed disappointment with the way President Jonathan waved aside the request that he should put an end to the probe of governors by the EFCC.

“Kano state governor, Rabiu Kwakwanso, who spoke on behalf of his colleagues at the Sunday meeting said that the son of Jigawa state governor Sule Lamido was being harassed by the EFCC and that a number of state governors were under EFCC probe.

“He asked the President to intervene and ensure that the PDP governors were protected. His Kwara state cvounterpart, Abdufattah Ahmed also complained that he and his predecessor have been victims of EFCC probe for years now and that they felt that as PDP governors, they should be protected.

“But it was gathered that the President’s refusal to give a commitment on the EFCC angle irked the governpors who later got back to the leadership of the party that they needed further consultations before they could attend the peace parley.”