PRESIDENT BUHARI'S TOP AIDE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE OVER ATTEMPT TO USURP OSIBANJO'S POWERS
President Buhari's Top Aide in Serious Trouble Over Attempt to Usurp Osinbajo's Powers...See Details
Posted by Odinaka on Mon 15th May, 2017 - tori.ng
The
alleged power struggle between the widely-reported Aso Rock Cabal and
the political heavyweights from the South-West, have continued over a
new role to usurp the powers of the acting president.
President Buhari
Vanguard
newspaper has exclusively reported that a top aide of President
Muhammadu Buhari is in trouble over the role he allegedly played prior
to the departure of the president to the United Kingdom for medical
treatment last week.
There were indications, last night, that the aide, who has already
courted many controversies for the Presidency, might be probed for the
latest action and other scandals he had been enmeshed in since being put
in the key post in the Presidency.
A top government source revealed last night, that the latest
offence that got Buhari very upset, was the attempt by the said aide to
breach the clear provisions of the Constitution regarding the transfer
of power to the Vice President ahead of Buhari’s departure, last week,
for his medical follow-up in the United Kingdom.
The source explained that although the President had upon his last
visit to the U.K. personally told Nigerians that he would after his
49-day stay in London soon return there for a follow-up, the said
official deliberately refused to share the information with other key
aides of the president like the NSA, media aides and even the Office of
the Vice President.
It was learned that it was not until the day of departure of Buhari
that he himself kept asking about the whereabouts of his Vice that his
aides who were around, hurriedly put a call to Osinbajo to urgently meet
with the number one citizen.
It was gathered that Buhari also personally put a call to the
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and the Chairman of the Nigerian
Governors’ Forum and Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulazia Yari Abubakar,
to meet him at the Villa before his departure.
“The president actually insisted on calling the top government
officials to come over to his residence that night to meet with him
before his departure to ensure that there was clear understanding that
he was travelling and wanted every relevant official of the
administration to know about his trip and to demonstrate his full
compliance with the laws of Nigeria.
“Mr. President did not want to be dictated to by the said
official, who had earlier suggested to him that the transfer of power to
the Vice President should be limited, while he should be empowered by
the President to act as a liaison between the Presidency and the
National Assembly, during Buhari’s absence.
The source said last night, “In fact, the man in question had actually drafted a letter meant for the president’s signature two days to Buhari’s departure" stating that
“the powers of the Acting President be limited” while he ( the aide in
question) be authorized to coordinate things in a “broad sense until
Buhari returns”.
“In the letter drafted by the controversial official for Buhari
to sign, the officer also suggested that Osinbajo be restrained from
taking any action on the Economy, Foreign Currency operations and the
Central Bank of Nigeria among other strategic agencies of the government
pending the return of Buhari.”
“Mr. President however shocked the aide largely believed to
have won his heart by promptly rejecting the suggestions by taking the
unprecedented bold step to personally meet with his Vice and the NASS
leaders and brief them on the transfer of power to his Vice before
leaving Nigeria for the U.K.
“It was at the meeting that Buhari pointedly asked Osinbajo to
take full control of the administration and to have a free hand to run
the system untill his return to Nigeria, something that rattled the
powerful aide, who is said to be rooting for the creation of a cabal in
the Presidency for his pecuniary interest,” the source said.
Top Government sources hinted last night that the President himself
might have started losing confidence in the said aide when he
constituted the panel which probed the suspended Secretary to give
Government of the Federation, SGF,and the Director General of the
National Intelligence Agency, NIA, without involving the beleaguered
aide.
“On that particular occasion, unlike before, Buhari personally
drafted the statement in conjunction with his media aides announcing the
suspension of the two men and the composition of a panel to probe them
without the knowledge of the aide in question.
“It was after announcement by the President that most other
aides got to know about the suspension of Ayo Oke and David Babachir.
This explains why even the embattled SGF himself ironically “which
Presidency?” when confronted by State House reporters after the news was
broken."
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