Following the tension generated by the forthcoming governorship
elections in Adamawa and Bayelsa states scheduled for 4 and 11 of next
month, respectively, authorities of the Military Intelligence and
Defence Intelligence Agency have secured top secret reports showing that
plans are afoot to bomb the Independent National Electoral Commission,
INEC, headquarters; Transcorp Hilton hotel and the Central Bank
headquarters, all in Abuja.
Military sources told Vanguard that though the bombings and attacks would be blamed on Boko Haram sect, painstaking analysis of the intelligence material had narrowed those behind the plots to ‘do-or-die’ politicians.
The bombing of INEC headquarters was planned to happen ‘soon’ before the first of four governorship elections rescheduled for this year involving two front runners, Brig-General Buba Marwa(rtd) of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, and Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako(rtd) of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Adamawa State on February 4.
Further bombings on the headquarters of CBN and Transcorp Hilton Hotel, which are to take place simultaneously or at intervals, the source added, were meant to give a semblance of coordinated attacks on national assets, with a pre-arranged plan by a fake Boko Haram spokesman to announce through foreign media, that the Islamic sect was responsible for the bombings.
As a result of these findings, Vanguard gathered, a security alert had been placed on the FCT with INEC, CBN and Transcorp Hilton hotel getting more military protection.
Consequently, the Nigerian Army has deployed more combat personnel to all entry and exit points in Abuja, including Gwagwalada, Keffi, Suleija and Zuba, while new mobile electronic bomb-detecting devices had been deployed at Airport Road, Zuba, Keffi and Aso Rock in Abuja.
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