Chairman of APC Akida Group Faces Contempt Charges for Defying Court Injunction with Petition Against Defence Minister Bello Matawalle.
Mr Tijjani Lamaran, the chairman APC Akida has been accessed of working behind the scenes on behalf of Zamfara State Gov Dauda Lawal in filing a petition to the Department of State Services DSS against the minister of state Bello Mohammed Matawalle accusing the minister of having link with bandits.
Tijjani Lamaran who was a one time Special Adviser to late former Kaduna State Gov Dabo Lere and former DG at the Nigerian maritime authorities is also being accused of sponsoring the protest at the Department of State Services (DSS), despite the presidency declaration of the minister to be free from the series of accusationss against the minister by Zamfara State Gov Dauda Lawal.
The protest which collected hired hoodlums and thugs in some buses to the DSS office in Abuja, is coming weeks after the Presidency has cleared Bello Matawalle from the allegations of linkage with bandits.
Tijjani Lamaran who is fronting for Zamfara Gov Dauda Lawal in the petition and the protest was in a memo alledgely linked with bandits sponsorship some months ago.
It may be recalled that the presidency said after thorough and genuine investigations conducted by
the National Security Adviser, it discovered that Bello Matawalle was declared free of the series of allegations levelled against him by Zamfara State Gov Dauda Lawal.
It was discovered by the investigators that Gov Dauda Lawal who lost focus in governance was too blindfolded to instigate the minister’s removal from the cabinet of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Tijjani Lamaran who is the father of Saadatu, the wife of Sarkin Hausawa of Lagos Aminu Yero, a trustworthy of the embattled former CBN governor Godwin Emefiele who as well forfeited the Sum of N120 billion to the Federal government as part of a the money Emefele was alleged to have give to her by Emefiele for safe keeping. Tijjani Lamaran and his daughter Saadatu have played different pivotal roles to sabotage Bola Ahmed Tinubu to succeed former President Muhammadu Buhari especially in Kaduna State where he Tijjanini Lamaran was alledged to vigorously worked for PDP successes.
Further investigations reveals that, APC Akida is a collection of selected group of individuals who are being financially sponsored by PDP to work against the APC success ahead of 2027 general election.