BY  JONAH NWOKPOKU
BENIN—A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Hon.  Johnson Agbonayinma, has called on security agencies to invite former President Olusegun Obasanjo for questioning over his claim that the Federal Government was training snipers.

Agbonayinma, who made this call in a statement, said the allegation was very weighty and capable of creating panic in the country, adding that “the Presidency must not allow former President Olusegun Obasanjo to enjoy the luxury of making such sensitive and weighty allegation that has implications for security of lives and move on as if he has offered a noble public service.”
According to him, “Obasanjo should be invited to provide useful information about his training of snipers claim, where they are being trained and the 1000 persons on the Presidency watch list because, to me, the claim appears tendentious, mischievous and inciting.

“I have not forgotten the Obasanjo years when real and perceived political opponents were taken out in a series of assassination incidents in which the killers have not, up till now, been apprehended.  As of today, the killers of Chief Bola Ige, who served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General in Obasanjo’s government, who was murdered in his Ibadan home, are yet to be apprehended.

“Was it not under the Obasanjo administration that yet-to-be-apprehended gunmen killed Chief Marshal Harry, a one-time South-South leader of the PDP, who later moved to the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, to support General Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential ambition in 2003?  What of another South-South PDP leader, Chief Aminasori Kala Dikibo, who was also killed on his way from Port-Harcourt to Delta for a party meeting?”