Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Thursday asked law enforcement authorities to arrest the minister of information, Lai Mohammed.
Mr Abubakar said Mr Mohammed raised a false alarm about purported plots to sabotage the Buhari administration, an allegation that he had failed to provide any evidence to substantiate.
The opposition leader said Mr Mohammed should also apologise to him and his Peoples Democratic Party to deter a repeat of such unfounded claim that could damage national security.
“With the conclusion reached by PREMIUM TIMES’ investigative reporting that there is no evidentiary proof to back the claim by Lai Mohammed that the opposition was planning to upstage the government, we demand that the information minister should be arrested for raising false alarm and an apology rendered to Atiku Abubakar and the PDP,” Mr Abubakar said in a Thursday afternoon statement by his spokesperson, Paul Ibe.
Mr Abubakar criticised Mr Buhari for not calling Mr Mohammed to order in his dangerous anti-opposition rhetoric.
“It is very unsettling that senior administration officials, especially those who are the mouthpiece of government, will make reckless but calculated comments to tarnish the image of Atiku Abubakar and government will sit idly on it,” he said.
