Nigeria, April 23 -- The Jama'atu Nasril Islam (JNI) has described as fake a document linking communications minister Isa Pantami to the planned murder of former Kaduna State Governor Patrick Yakowa.

The group also urged security agencies to investigate the alleged plot and the source of the document.

The said document, which first surfaced online in 2010, alleged that in a July 2010 meeting convened by the JNI and presided over by Mr Pantami, there were plots to, among other things, "eliminate" Mr Yakowa.

The secretary-general of the group, Khalid Aliyu, said in a statement Friday that the allegations were "disheartening and disgusting" and wondered how "an assassination plot could be written and kept."

Mr Aliyu said Mr Pantami was n...