President Muhammadu Buhari may have recalled his sacked Chief Security officer (CSO), Mr Abdurahman Mani.

Mani, a senior officer with the Department of State Services, DSS, was asked to leave the position last week.


He was posted to Ebonyi state. Buhari had also fired Widi Liman, his administrative officer. Both men were accused of turning appointments with the president into a “business venture”.

Bashir Abubakar, formerly an assistant director in the Bayelsa State command of the DSS, was appointed the new CSO to the president. Liman, who is yet to be replaced, was a close aide to governor of Kaduna state, Nasir el-Rufai, while he was FCT minister. He has been transferred to Oyo state command of the DSS.

However, information gathered on Friday suggests that the sacked CSO had been recalled to the Villa, though in another capacity – President Buhari’s chief detail.

Mani was yet to report in Ebonyi State before the recallBuhari’s loyalists reportedly made case for Mani, who was regarded as loyal and dedicated throughout the course of the presidential campaign.

Mani had served in similar capacity to General Buhari for four years prior to his election as president.

The former CSO had opposed an order by the aide-de-camp, Lieutenant-Colonel M. L. Abubakar, that DSS officials should vacate about 10 beats in the villa.

Mani, on June 26, issued a memo to counter a June 24 memo by the ADC, which also announced that DSS officials should stop close body protection of the president.

The memo, asked operatives of the DSS to ignore the earlier memo by the ADC, because the “author ventured into a not-too-familiar terrain.”

“The extant practice, the world over, is that VIP protection, which is a specialised field, is usually handled by the Secret Service, under whatever nomenclature.
“They usually constitute the inner core security ring around every principal. The Police and the military by training and mandate are often required to provide secondary and tertiary security cordons around venues and routes,” Mani noted.

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