Nigeria, June 26 -- On Tuesday night, former Governor Ibikunle Amosun issued a rebuttal to a PREMIUM TIMES story that detailed how he stored arms and ammunition at an illegal armoury at the Government House, Abeokuta.

The report, which was based on independent accounts of top national security sources, said Mr Amosun kept armaments in his official lodge in contravention of extant firearms regulations.

Mr Amosun, now a senator, had called up Ogun State police commissioner, Bashir Makama, and handed over the arms to him at an event inside the Government House on May 28 - barely hours before the end of his eight-year tenure.

At the event, Mr Amosun said he procured arms and ammunition to check widespread insecurity in his state of 3,751,1...