Obadiah Mailafia under probe for alleging a governor is Boko Haram commander

Obadiah Mailafia, a former presidential candidate, will appear before the Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday, August 12, 2020 over a recent claim he made in a radio interview that a state governor is a commander of Boko Haram.

He made the claim on Monday, August 10, based on an unsubstantiated intelligence report he got from talking to some former fighters of the terrorist group.

Mailafia's claim attracted public attention when a video of the interview was posted online, an attention which has now earned him an invitation with the secret police.

Mailafia told The Punch that the DSS invited him to appear at the agency's Jos office at noon on Wednesday.

Shocking Revelations from Dr Obadiah Mailafia's intelligence network on Boko Haram / Bandits and their plans in 2022 - to start a civil war in Nigeria.

He added that one of the current Northern governors is the commander of Boko Haram in Nigeria. #EnoughIsEnough pic.twitter.com/vtIYVkHLjN

— AyeMojubar (@ayemojubar) August 10, 2020

During his Monday interview, the former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) also claimed that Boko Haram is planning an invasion of the southern region in a bid to trigger a second civil war.

He said, "They 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.

"I can tell you this is the game plan. By 2022, they want to start a civil war in Nigeria.

"Don't joke with what I am saying I have a PhD from Oxford University. I am a central banker, we don't talk nonsense.

"I have this from the highest authority, some of the commanders of Boko Haram."

The Boko Haram insurgency has led to the death of over 30,000 people, and displacement of over 2.5 million in the northeast and surrounding border countries in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.