EXPOSED: How Pantami, Sultan Of Sokoto Plotted Murder Of Ex Kaduna Governor, Patrick Yakowa

• Yakowa was the first Christian governor of Kaduna, which is divided between Muslim and Christians

As communication minister Isa Pantami struggles to shrug off the spectre of religious extremism that’s now gravely dented his image, another startling and damning revelation has come to public knowledge that further substantiates a widely held notion by preponderance of the public that the embattled minister is an extremist and terrorist sympathiser who would stop at nothing to annihilate those who do not share his troubling religious views.

As the controversy about his pro-terrorism remarks of years gone by rages on, document showing how Pantami and other Muslim leaders of northern extraction, including Sultan of Sokoto, connived and plotted the assassination of former Kaduna State Governor Patrick Yakowa, has surfaced.

Yakowa died in a helicopter mishap in 2012. Ekohotblog can’t independently verify if the crash was orchestrated by the Muslim leaders to get rid of Yakowa. However, the agenda of a meeting held two years before Yakowa’s death focused on how to assassinate the governor.

Yakowa was the first Christian governor of Kaduna, which is divided between Muslim and Christians, although with a predominantly Muslim population.

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Pantami presided over the July 13, 2010, meeting of Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), a foremost Islamic body led by Sultan of Sokoto Sa’ad Abubakar, where a consensus was reached to exterminate Yakowa and his family because he was a Christian governor leading a state in the Muslim-dominated North.

“We must either use the security or other means to eliminate the governor, his family and all those they perceive as supporting him,” Pantami and other leaders resolved at the meeting held at Bauchi Central Mosque.

At the meeting it was alleged that Yakowa was planning to contest for governor in 2011 and he had the support of former President Goodluck Jonathan, a fellow Christian.

Yakowa, who was deputy to the then governor of Kaduna state, Namadi Sambo, became governor in 2010 after former president, Goodluck Jonathan, chose Sambo, as his vice.

Yakowa become substantive governor in 2011 after  winning the state gubernatorial election. He was killed in a helicopter crash barely a year later in 2012, alongside former national security adviser Owoye Andrew Azazi.

Many have opined that there’s more to the event than meet the eyes as they believed the incident is not accidental. Investigation into what happened was never concluded or made public.

Document about the meeting surfaced as calls for Pantami to resign from office Intensify following divulgence of his past incendiary and inciting religious statements.

Download the full document of the meeting chaired by Pantami here.

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