The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) has described as fake a document linking Minister of Communication Isa Pantami to the planned murder of former Kaduna State Governor Patrick Yakowa.
The group also urged security agencies to investigate the alleged plot and the source of the document.
The said document, which first surfaced online in 2010, alleged that in a July 2010 meeting convened by the JNI and presided over by Pantami, there were plots to, among other things, eliminate Yakowa.
The secretary-general of the group, Khalid Aliyu, said in a statement yesterday that the allegations were disheartening and disgusting and wondered how an assassination plot could be written and kept.
Aliyu said Pantami was not at any point JNI’s leader both at national or state level.
He added that the document was shared by the media to confuse and manipulate an average Nigerian’s mind in order to disrupt the country’s peace.
