He also said the security situation in the nation during the era of the late military head of state, Sani Abacha, was better than the insecurity confronting Nigerians in the regime of President Buhari

According to him, the Buhari government is the worst government Nigeria had since 1960. Mailafia spoke on Wednesday while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’

Mailafia said, “This attempt on the life of an executive governor and incumbent of a state is an attempted attack on the entire people of the state. Those who are trying to do this wicked thing need to understand the implication of what they are trying to do. If the governor of a state cannot feel safe going to his farm, how will the ordinary Benue people feel going to their farms? This is a very bad precedence. The circumstances in Borno are very different. Borno is a war zone, we’ve been living with these evil people for a while but what happened in Benue is totally different and diabolical. We don’t know what they are trying to do but this could affect the whole country. Benue people and the people of the Middle Belt will never ever accept this attempt on one of their sons. Nobody is afraid of these people but it is just that these people are given arms and allowed to move freely while the machetes that ordinary people have are being dispossessed from them, they are not even allowed to defend their homes and their families but we are glad that God saved the life of his Excellency, Governor Ortom. This is totally unprecedented. This is the worst time ever in the history of Nigeria. You can’t even compare with Abacha’s time; Abacha’s time was a golden era compare with what is happening. Do you think Abacha would have tolerated all these? You can’t travel on these roads, killings everywhere, destructions everywhere. World powers want to destroy Nigeria and what they have done is to come and meet some people and tell them, ‘You are born to rule’. There is an agenda (ex-President Olusegun) Obasanjo called Fulanisation and enforcement of one particular religion against the rest. The world powers encourage them and tell them, ‘We are behind you, go ahead. They provide the weapons and some local people buy into that idea and they begin a campaign of genocide because if you carry a heavy weapon and go into the forests, go into the ancient Savannah, you kill people, you rape women, what are you? You are committing genocide against the unarmed and defenceless.”

This fresh invitation makes its the third invite the former DG of CBN would be getting from DSS in less than two months, over a radio interview where he alleged a Northern Governor was Boko Haram commander.

He was asked to appear on Monday, September 14 by 11am.

Reacting to this fresh invites, Mailafia while speaking with The Nation on Friday, said his life was in danger because certain political forces were bent on silencing him.

According to him: “I have once again (for the 3rd time) been ordered to appear before the DSS at their Jos HQ this coming Monday 14th September at 11.00 am.

“This is in addition to our battle in court, as my lawyer appears before a Jos High Court on Friday September 11, seeking a restraining order against the DIG Criminal Investigations Department (CID) who are also pursuing me.”

He added that, “I spent over 20 years of my working life abroad as a university teacher, banker and international civil servant with unblemished record.

“I have no criminal record — not even a parking ticket. Sadly, it is in my own fatherland that I’m being subjected to criminal investigation and such extreme political persecution.

“Please, pray for me. I have reasons to believe that my life is in danger and that some powerful political forces want to silence me forever for speaking the truth.

“For speaking on behalf of the Holy Martyrs — of thousands of innocent children, women, elderly and youths that have been killed in our beloved country.”

Mailafia has been on the radar of security operatives after granting a radio interview where he alleged a Northern Governor is a commander of Boko Haram terrorists.

He was invited twice to DSS and released unconditionally.

Mailafia declined and approached the Jos High Court seeking a restraining order against the Police.

The High Court 4, Jos will begin the hearing on Friday.

Mailafia was a directing staff at the National Policy, which is a think- tank institution.

His lawyer Barrister Yakubu Bawa confirmed this to newsmen in Jos on Tuesday.

He said the former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the 2019 elections resigned his appointment, stating NIPSS has accepted the resignation.

It was gathered that Mailafia’s resignation may not be unconnected with his comments on insecurity and killings in Southern Kaduna during a radio interview.

He had alleged a Northern Governor was Commander of Boko Haram.

He was invited twice by the DSS in Jos for questioning before the police invited him to Abuja.

On Monday, the former CBN Deputy Governor approached the High Court Plateau for enforcement of his rights after declining the police invitation.

It is speculated that the invitation of the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria by the police may be connected to his previous appearance before the Department of State Services (DSS), over his claim of a Northern Governor being one of the leaders of Boko Haram.

Serving an update at a press conference on Monday, August 24, Mailafia described the invitation as intimidation, harassment, persecution and a witch hunt. He disclosed that he will be filing a lawsuit to challenge the invitation.