We stopped another terror attack, they wanted to bomb Govt House — Aiyedatiwa

Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has revealed that information operatives foiled an alleged crippled by 5 youths to weaponry the Ondo State Government House respective months ago.

Aiyedatiwa disclosed this on Wednesday while speaking connected Channels Television’s Politics Today, soon aft a Federal High Court successful Abuja sentenced 4 persons to decease by hanging for their roles successful the June 5, 2022 violent onslaught connected Saint Francis Catholic Church, Owo.

According to the governor, the suspects had assembled bomb-making materials and different instrumentality successful a edifice wherever they were staying earlier information agencies received quality astir their activities.

He said operatives of the Nigeria Police Force and the Ondo State Security Network Agency, codenamed Amotekun, acted connected the intelligence, raided the edifice and arrested the suspects earlier they could transportation retired the planned attack.

The politician stated that the suspects stay successful detention.

Aiyedatiwa said the radical had allegedly planned to people the Government House, though helium noted that the motive down the crippled remains unclear.

He cited the incidental arsenic grounds of ongoing efforts by information agencies to tackle information threats successful the state, stressing that isolated incidents should not beryllium interpreted arsenic a nonaccomplishment of the governm...