Nigeria: Presidential Villa worker testifies, says ‘I was deceived by co-suspects’ — Africa Links 24

Zekari Umoru, one of the defendants in the ongoing trial of six persons allegedly involved in the plotting of a coup against President Bola Tinubu’s government, on Tuesday said he was deceived by co-suspects.

Mr Umoru, a Julius Berger Nigeria Plc employee in the Maintenance Department, Presidential Villa, Abuja, spoke in a video evidence played before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Mr Umoru is the 4th defendant in the alleged treasonable charge.

In the…