President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday named Abdulkarim Dauda and Kayode Sikiru Akande to serve as the Chief Personal Security Officer to the President and the Officer in Charge of Presidential Movement respectively. Both officers were promoted from the position of Assistant Commissioner of Police to Deputy Commissioner of Police.

The development is coming on the heels of reports that top military officers in President Buhari’s government are planning to overthrow the President.

Sources privy to the development who did not want to be named told SIGNAL on Thursday that while the appointment of a new Chief Security Officer for the President may have long been overdue, President Buhari’s concern about the threat of a possible military coup has forced him to rejig his personal security apparatus at the presidential villa.

“The issue of a new Chief Security Officer for the President has lingered for some time now. But I can tell you that Thursday’s announcement is a swift and panic reaction to the news of a possible military coup which the President is not taking lightly. You know he is a retired military general. Anything that relates to his personal security, he doesn’t joke with it. He actually gets paranoid with it”, the source said.

Recall that in July 2015, President Buhari fired Abdulrahman Mani who was then his Chief Security Officer. Mani was alleged to have been involved in “shady deals” in fixing appointments and was allegedly “undermining” the president. Mani had been deployed by the DSS as a security detail to Buhari in 2011 weeks before he launched his campaign that year.

The Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF had revealed on Wednesday that some top Army officers allegedly planning to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari had approached Niger-Delta militants to continue bombing oil installations to give reason and justification for a coup against him.

Top officials of Nigeria’s defence and military hierarchy have quickly dismissed the reports pledging their full loyalty to President Buhari.


Read more here: http://www.signalng.com/buhari-appoints-new-chief-security-officer/

Call me when it reaches Fp

Interesting the military should tell us what is going on, make remember how ibb over throw buhari government in 1984 with ordinary slap

hahahahah be nko

He is wasting his time. What will be will be

Oh God,hw did we enter into this mess

#FearFearBuhari!

Na so NDA threaten am with missile im kukuma Appoint Mere commissioner Osinbajo 'honorary president' run go uk... go Jam cancer diagnosis

What can his CSO do against a brigade of armed military personnel IF a coup were to take place??

Na d new CSO go stop d coup, assuming d thing wan happen self? This Bubu self

Oh!! So you dae fear?

This Buhari sef dey do like coward.

Somebody that has a kidnapping value can't run away from it even if he wears shout and bathroom footwear. So if this government is due to overthrow then the change will be changed

hahahaha

Everybody fears something. It's obvious buhari's COUP.

In no distant time it will happen. History will repeat itself because he failed to learn from history

buhari should simply change his life style of his government to shoot the present reality on ground that had brought hardship on the land.otherwise,) his tenure may not be all that successful.

Changing CSO will not help Buhari. Retiring senior officers will also not save him. His own people are feeling the heat. Won't be surprised if a fellow Northerner overthrows the dullard. It all makes sense. Support him to enter the seat then overthrow him later.

I smell lies.

Whether the rumour is true or not, changing CSO is definitely the right step. That is what a proactive person does

Na wa oh!!!