Without any official announcement, President Umaru Yar’Adua has begun a gradual and silent probe of his predecessor, President Olusegun Obasanjo. Just this week, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan announced that the privatization exercise carried out by the past administration will be reviewed and ordered the National Assembly to initiate the process.
Yar’Adua has also indicated interest in unraveling the rash of unsolved murder mysteries that pervaded the Obasanjo administration. For now, the focus is on the brutal double murder of Barrister Igwe and his wife. The former President of the Onitsha branch of Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) and his wife were killed by unknown persons on September 1, 2002 at Onitsha, Anambra state.
For a long time, close associates of former President Obasanjo were suspected of involvement in the double assassination. However, investigation into the case was purposely bungled to shield the culprits.
Not anymore.
President Yar’Adua seemed set to flash the light into the darkest spots of his predecessor’s administration; the unsolved political assassinations. A pointer towards that emerged when the Presidency directed the Police to reopen the 2002 double murder of Onitsha branch Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association and his wife as well as solve other such “high level profile assassinations.” Full Story
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