Nigeria: We held meeting to cut power to the Presidential Villa – Suspected coup plotter — Africa Links 24

Zekeri Umoru, one of the suspected coup plotters, on Wednesday said discussions were held on switching off electricity supply to the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to aid the alleged coup.

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

He said he warned that such an action would immediately trigger investigations and the detention of…