Nigeria: IBB, Atiku, Gusau Under Surveillance

Leadership

28 March 2011

Nigeria: IBB, Atiku, Gusau Under Surveillance

Abuja — A few days to the commencement of the general election, the nation's security agencies have put some prominent politicians under surveillance.

Those affected include former military president Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, former vice-president Atiku Abubakar, former national security adviser Aliyu Guasu - all former PDP presidential aspirants and some other leaders of the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF).

A senior security officer told LEADERSHIP last night that "our reason is based on security reports from different intelligence units."

But, spokesmen of both the former military president and the former vice-president, Prince Kassim Afegbua and Mallam Shehu Garba, said their principals could not be intimidated by the action of the security agencies.

Although the security source refused to speak further on the matter, LEADERSHIP gathered that the move may not be unconnected to their political activities, especially as the general elections draw near.