The Federal Government on Wednesday accused Shiekh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) of being sponsored by Iran to replicate the 1979 violent revolution that led to the forceful takeover of power in Nigeria.
In a fresh process filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the Federal Government stressed that currently, members of the IMN do not recognise President Muhammadu Buhari’s authority.
It argued that the plan of the IMN’s leader and his sponsor was to forcibly turn the country into an Islamic State.
The Federal Government therefore urged the court to dismiss the suit filed by IMN to challenge the order that proscribed its activities in Nigeria.
It told the court that the relationship between El-Zakzaky and Iran started shortly after the said revolution that toppled a sitting government.
It said El-Zakzaky who was a Shia activist in the university was “heavily influenced” by the Iranian revolution, and had since galvanised his followers and brainwashed them to unleash mayhem against the Nigerian state and its citizens.
In a 56-paragraph counter-affidavit that was deposed to by Deputy Commissioner of Police in Charge of Operations, FCT Command, Enyinnaya Adiogu, the Federal Government told the court that he had the consent of the attorney-general of the Federation, the national security adviser, and the inspector-general of police to depose to the affidavit.
DCP Adiogu said: “That from history and facts available, the movement called Islamic Movement of Nigeria founded by El-Zakzaky has its sole aim of creating an Islamic State.
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