ADVERTISEMENT
  • The Membership Club
  • About Us
  • Advert Rates
  • Careers
  • Contact Us
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Premium Times Nigeria
  • Home
  • COVID-19
  • News
    • Headline Stories
    • Top News
    • More News
    • Foreign
  • Investigations
  • Business
    • News Reports
    • Financial Inclusion
    • Analysis and Data
    • Business Specials
    • Opinion
    • Oil/Gas Reports
      • FAAC Reports
      • Revenue
  • Opinion
  • Health
    • News Reports
    • Investigations
    • Data and Infographics
    • Health Specials
    • Features
    • Events
    • Primary Health Tracker
  • Agriculture
    • News Report
    • Research & Innovation
    • Data & Infographics
    • Special Reports/Features
    • Investigations
    • Interviews
    • Markets
  • Arts/Life
    • Arts/Books
    • Kannywood
    • Lifestyle
    • Music
    • Nollywood
    • Travel
  • Sports
    • Football
    • More Sports News
    • Sports Features
  • Projects
    • Parliament Watch
    • Panama Papers
    • Paradise Papers
    • AGAHRIN
  • Home
  • COVID-19
  • News
    • Headline Stories
    • Top News
    • More News
    • Foreign
  • Investigations
  • Business
    • News Reports
    • Financial Inclusion
    • Analysis and Data
    • Business Specials
    • Opinion
    • Oil/Gas Reports
      • FAAC Reports
      • Revenue
  • Opinion
  • Health
    • News Reports
    • Investigations
    • Data and Infographics
    • Health Specials
    • Features
    • Events
    • Primary Health Tracker
  • Agriculture
    • News Report
    • Research & Innovation
    • Data & Infographics
    • Special Reports/Features
    • Investigations
    • Interviews
    • Markets
  • Arts/Life
    • Arts/Books
    • Kannywood
    • Lifestyle
    • Music
    • Nollywood
    • Travel
  • Sports
    • Football
    • More Sports News
    • Sports Features
  • Projects
    • Parliament Watch
    • Panama Papers
    • Paradise Papers
    • AGAHRIN
Premium Times Nigeria
BUA Group Ad BUA Group Ad BUA Group Ad
ADVERTISEMENT
UPDATED: Why Nigeria Police raided Senator Goje’s home

Senator Goje's house

What Nigeria Police found in Senator Goje’s home concerning Sheikh Ja’afar’s murder

bySani Tukur
April 30, 2017
2 min read

The file the police said it found during a raid on the home of Senator Danjuma Goje regarding how a popular Islamic cleric, Ja’afar Adam, was murdered are actually media reports already in public domain, the senator’s aide has told PREMIUM TIMES.

The Nigerian Police had on Thursday said apart from the millions of cash it found in the Asokoro residence of Mr. Goje, it also found other documents including ” A File containing write-ups on how Governor Shekarau plotted the assassination of Sheikh Ja’afar”.

When PREMIUM TIMES visited the senator’s residence on Saturday, we were told that he had gone to the office to attend to “urgent matters relating to Budget 2017 which might be laid at Plenary next week” .

However, some of his aides while responding to our inquiries said they were shocked by the police claim.

“The Senator has made it clear he had nothing to do with the alleged documents on the murder of Sheikh Ja’afar,” one of them, Abbas Saleh, said.

He said what the police found was a printout of a report published by Sahara Reporters in 2009.

“It is therefore something that has been in public domain,” Mr. Saleh said. “Do you think if the Police had found anything incriminating, they would still have been silent?”

Checks by PREMIUM TIMES show that news website, Sahara Reporters, had actually published a report on April 12, 2009 titled “Revealed: How Gov. Shekarau Plotted the Assassination of Sheikh Ja’afar“.

Mr. Shekarau himself has threatened to sue the Nigerian Police for defamation of character over the allegation.

Read Also

COVID-19: Lagos intensifies public sensitisation on second wave

2020: 20 great PREMIUM TIMES stories you need to read again

How we rescued abducted Islamiya students from bandits in Katsina — Military

Speaking to the Hausa service of the BBC via his spokesperson, Sule Ya’u, which was monitored on Saturday, the former governor said he suspected that the document the Police said they found in Mr. Goje’s House was an old one written by the then Kano State opposition camp to unfairly blame him for the murder of the cleric.

“I also have that document. Several other people here in Kano also have it and I am sure it is the the same document that former Governor Goje also has. If it is a different one, the police should come out and explain to Nigerians,” he said.

Sheikh Ja’afar was gunned down inside a mosque as he observed the early morning prayer on April 13, 2007.

Dangote adbanner 728x90_2 (1)

Opinions were divided at the time as to those behind the murder. While, some belief the Sheikh was killed by the extremist group, Boko Haram, many others said Mr. Shekarau, governor of Kano at the time, might be behind the murder because the cleric was one of his major critics.

Boko Haram never claimed responsibility for the murder and the Police are yet to inform Nigerians on how far it has gone in investigating those behind crime.

Police spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, could not be reached for comments Sunday morning.

However, a Force Headquarters source familiar with the matter told PREMIUM TIMES all the materials found at Mr. Goje’s residence in connection with the murder were genuine.

“The files were recovered and serious investigation is currently ongoing to examine why the senator was in possession of such documents,” the source said, asking not to be named because he had no permission from his superiors to discuss the matter with journalists.

But Mr. Goje’s aides suggested the Senator was being “targeted” by politicians because of his rising profile.

ADVERTISEMENT

“If you look at our political big wigs from the north-east today, next to Atiku is Senator Goje who refused to abandon the grassroots,” Mr. Saleh said. “I am sure that is why they are using the police to bring him down, God will not let them succeed.”

  • WhatsApp
  • Tweet
  • Email
  • Print
  • Telegram
  • More
  • Share on Tumblr
  • Pocket

Support PREMIUM TIMES' journalism of integrity and credibility

Good journalism costs a lot of money. Yet only good journalism can ensure the possibility of a good society, an accountable democracy, and a transparent government.
For continued free access to the best investigative journalism in the country we ask you to consider making a modest support to this noble endeavour.
By contributing to PREMIUM TIMES, you are helping to sustain a journalism of relevance and ensuring it remains free and available to all.

Donate


TEXT AD: To advertise here . Call Willie +2347088095401...


JOIN THE CONVERSATION

  • Disqus (14)
premiumtimes



PT Mag Campaign AD

Previous Post

Nigerian Army female wrestler wins gold at African Championship

Next Post

Bayelsa teachers threaten strike over 10 months salary arrears

Sani Tukur

Sani Tukur

More News

Scene of vehicles emitting fumes without caution

SPECIAL REPORT: How Nigerians are paying deadly price for Europe’s dirty fuel

January 10, 2021
A Maize Farm [PHOTO CREDIT: AgroNewsNigeria]

SPECIAL REPORT: How Nigeria’s maize production has grown since 1960

January 10, 2021
An Isolation centre in Lagos for COVID-19 patients [PHOTO CREDIT: @jidesanwoolu]

COVID-19: Nigeria records 1,585 new cases in 26 states

January 10, 2021
Jim Lawson Maduike

Veteran actor, Jim Maduike, is dead

January 9, 2021
Premium Times News Nigeria

PREMIUM TIMES makes new appointments

January 9, 2021
Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi. [PHOTO CREDIT: Official Twitter handle of FRSC]

FRSC makes NIN mandatory for vehicle registration

January 9, 2021
Next Post
Bayelsa on Nigerian map

Bayelsa teachers threaten strike over 10 months salary arrears

Discussion about this post

Search

#EndSARS: Latest Updates




Polaris Bank




Advertisement






netherland biz school Advert

Zenith Advert

Heritage Advert
ADVERTISEMENT

Our Digital Network

  • PT Hausa
  • Election Centre
  • Human Trafficking Investigation
  • Centre for Investigative Journalism
  • National Conference
  • Press Attack Tracker
  • PT Academy
  • Dubawa
  • LeaksNG
  • Campus Reporter

Resources

  • Oil & Gas Facts
  • List of Universities in Nigeria
  • LIST: Federal Unity Colleges in Nigeria
  • NYSC Orientation Camps Address Nationwide
  • Nigeria’s Federal/States’ Budgets since 2005
  • Malabu Scandal Thread
  • World Cup 2018
  • Panama Papers Game
  • Our Digital Network
  • About Us
  • Resources
  • Projects
  • Data & Infographics
  • DONATE

All content is Copyrighted © 2020 The Premium Times, Nigeria

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • COVID-19
  • News
    • Headline Stories
    • Top News
    • More News
    • Foreign
  • Investigations
  • Business
    • News Reports
    • Financial Inclusion
    • Analysis and Data
    • Business Specials
    • Opinion
    • Oil/Gas Reports
      • FAAC Reports
      • Revenue
  • Health
    • News Reports
    • Investigations
    • Data and Infographics
    • Health Specials
    • Features
    • Events
    • Primary Health Tracker
  • Agriculture
    • News Report
    • Research & Innovation
    • Data & Infographics
    • Special Reports/Features
    • Investigations
    • Interviews
    • Markets
  • Arts/Life
    • Arts/Books
    • Kannywood
    • Lifestyle
    • Music
    • Nollywood
    • Travel
  • Sports
    • Football
    • More Sports News
    • Sports Features
  • Projects
    • Panama Papers
    • Paradise Papers
    • Parliament Watch
    • AGAHRIN
  • Opinion
  • The Membership Club
  • Dubawa
    • Dubawa NG
  • About Us
  • Advert Rates
  • Careers
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Store
  • DONATE

All content is Copyrighted © 2020 The Premium Times, Nigeria

Our website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.