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.
According to Vanguard, it was told by a top government 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.
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 President.
It was gathered that Buhari also personally put a call to the Senate
President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Speaker of the House of Reps, Yakubu
Dogara and the Chairman of the Governors’ Forum and Governor of Zamfara
State, Abdulazia Yari, 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.
“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.
Top Government sources hinted 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 asked 'which Presidency'?”
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