{"id":28009,"date":"2020-08-11T23:40:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=28009"},"modified":"2020-08-11T23:40:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:40:58","slug":"viral-video-mailafia-to-meet-with-dss-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=28009","title":{"rendered":"Viral video: Mailafia to meet with DSS on Wednesday over terrorism, banditry claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a video of his interview with a radio station broke viral videos records and set Nigerians on edge over his allegation that a northern Governor is a commander of Boko Haram, and that there was a plan for a civil war in 2022, the Department of State Services has invited Dr. Obadiah Mailafia for a chat in its Jos Office in Plateau State.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-28009-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/VID-20200811-WA0042.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/VID-20200811-WA0042.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/VID-20200811-WA0042.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nA message posted on WhatsApp disclosed the invite, and Dr. Obadiah confirmed to Everyday.ng on phone Tuesday night that he was indeed invited.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is true,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe WhatsApp message reads in part: &#8220;Dear Middle Belters, we should come out in solidarity of our father and illustrious son of the struggle, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, he is being invited by DSS Headquarters, Plateau State, Jos, tomorrow at 12:noon over his Radio interview in Lagos few days (ago) which he boldly pointed out that one of the Governors of northern Nigeria is a commander of Boko Haram. Please let nothing happen to our leader. An injury to is an injury to all. Solidarity forever.God bless&#8221;.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28016\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28016\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/download.jpeg-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"206\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Obadiah Mailafia<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThere have been wild guesses as to which Governor Mailafia, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) was referring to in his video.<br \/>\nSaid a source: &#8220;(He) did not mention any name because those he said gave the information did not give him any name. Also, if you analyse that cut-out, he merely suggested that the bad guys will precipitate a situation that is intended to lead to civil conflict and (he) mentioned it because he didn&#8217;t want a civil conflict.&#8221;<br \/>\nMailafia, the Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the last election, said in the video, \u201cSome of us also have our intelligence networks. I have met with some of the bandits; we have met with some of their high commanders \u2013 one or two who have repented \u2013 they have sat down with us not once, not twice.<br \/>\n\u201cThey told us that one of the northern governors is the commander of Boko Haram in Nigeria. Boko Haram and the bandits are one and the same. They have a sophisticated network. During this lockdown their planes were moving up and down as if there was no lockdown.<br \/>\n\u201cThey were moving ammunition, moving money, and distributing them across different parts of the country.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThey are already in the South, in the rain forests of the South. They are everywhere. They told us that when they finish these rural killings, they will move to phase two. Phase two is that they will go into urban cities, going from house to house killing prominent people.<br \/>\n\u201cI can tell you this is the game plan.<br \/>\n\u201cBy 2022, they want to start a civil war in Nigeria. Don\u2019t joke with what I am saying I have a PhD from Oxford University. I am a central banker, we don\u2019t talk nonsense. I have this from the highest authority, some of the commanders of Boko Haram.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a video of his interview with a radio station broke viral videos records and set Nigerians on edge over his allegation that a northern Governor is a commander of Boko Haram, and that there was a plan for a civil war in 2022, the Department of State Services has invited Dr. Obadiah Mailafia for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,2114,2115],"class_list":["post-28009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-dss","tag-mailafia","tag-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}