Save me from assassins, Adamawa lawmaker begs Buhari

An All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker in Adamawa state House of Assembly, Hon. Abdurrahman Abubakar Isa, has alleged plans by agents of the state government to eliminate him for opposing plans by the administration to divert the CBN’s salary arrears bailout fund to other purposes.
The embattled parliamentarian alleged that the government borrowed N2.379 billion from a commercial bank without waiting for the release of the anticipated CBN fund and also initiated another move to also borrow N4.706 billion with nine per cent interest from the same bank.
Isa, representing Mubi South constituency in the Assembly, is the chairman of the Finance, Budget and Appropriation Committee had been on a three-month suspension for allegedly working against the executive arm.

The lawmaker, who said he relocated to Abuja last week, told newsmen yesterday, that he narrowly escaped assassination on Saturday, November 14, 2015, when ‘government agents’ trailed him in a black jeep to a guest house where he took refuge and attempted to kidnap and kill him.
He appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector-General of Police to urgently intervene in the dispute between him and the governor before the dispute affected the fortunes of the APC in the state.
He said: “I learnt from very reliable sources that the government was planning to kidnap and kill me.

So, I left my house and relocated to a guest house but four men in unmarked black jeep that looked like those of the Government House still traced me in the evening to the place I was hiding. I thank God who used some people in the apartment to help me escape death.”
He stated that the governor wrote to the House asking for approval of “sectoral virement” even when the 2015 Adamawa Appropriation Bill had been passed into law and no supplementary request had been made to the House.
“The only way new projects can be captured in the budget after passage of the Appropriation Law is by a supplementary appropriation bill which was never submitted by the governor and on discovering the anomaly, I drew the attention of the speaker and the members to it but my observations were sent to the governor.”