Acting President Yemi Osinbajo got the
consent of President Muhammadu Buhari to dismiss the former
Director-General of the State Security Services (SSS), Mr. Lawal Daura,
the presidency said Wednesday.....
The Special Adviser to the President on
Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, disclosed this while answering
questions from journalists at the end of the weekly Federal Executive
Council (FEC) meeting in the State House, and said the presidency was
one, hence a decision of that magnitude would not have been taken
without a sense of unanimity between the president and his deputy.
According to him, the acting president
is a decent man who is not obsessed with power, pointing out that there
was no battle between them and that accounts for the reason the
president always transmits power to Osinbajo whenever he’s leaving the
country.
Adesina said, “What we will like to say
for the umpteenth time is that the presidency is one. Whenever the
president is proceeding on vacation he transmits power to the vice
president, who then becomes the acting president. On this occasion he
also did that.
“So, the acting president has all the
powers of a president. Now it’s a matter then of decency and we know
that the acting president is a decent man. There is no tussle for power.
There is no battle between him and the president.
“When something like what happened
yesterday would happen, there would be unanimity. There was no way there
wouldn’t be unanimity on that kind of decision. It’s not something that
will be discussed with the press but know that there was unanimity in
the decision.”
Osinbajo had on Tuesday ordered the
immediate dismissal of Daura and consequently directed him to hand over
to the most senior officer of the DSS following his unilateral decision
to deploy DSS operatives to the National Assembly without authorization.
Masked DSS operatives armed to the teeth
had taken over the two gates of the National Assembly at the dawn of
Tuesday, preventing senators and staff of the National Assembly as well
as journalists from gaining entry into the premises of the apex
legislative institution.
Following Daura’s sack, Matthew Seiyefa,
an indigene of Bayelsa State and a former Director of the Institute of
Security Studies, Abuja was appointed as the Acting Director-General of
the Service.
Until his appointment, Seiyefa was the most senior director in the DSS.
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