By Abdulrasaq Olaosebikan

Before then Chief of Army Staff, General Ibrahim Babangida removed then head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, some things were planned ahead of time to discredit the head of State.

One that many Nigerians will not forget in a hurry is the raid on the home and library of Chief Obafemi Awolowo in Ikenne, Ogun State. Later chronicles of Nigeria's government and politics described some of those plots to discredit the disciplined and focused General Buhari and Idiagbon's government as the handiwork of Fifth Columnists.

The question today is: are there Fifth Columnists in the Buhari Presidency using their inside connections to undermine the administration and threatening its credibility and legacy? 

For instance why is so many official leaks taking place including this week's leak of a stinker from the National Security Adviser, General Babagana Munguno to the Chief of Staff Abba Kyari? 

Since the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari took office in 2015, Nigerians have witnessed a number of official documents  purpotedly leaked from the office of the Chief of Staff to the President, Alhaji Abba Kyari. What can't be denied is that the Chief of Staff's office is the recurring decimal in all the leaks.

Some analysts argue that those leaks were deliberately carried out and  deployed as a tactic and  means of settling political scores

A simple online check found that no less than four official/classified documents have leaked from Mr Kyari’s office most of them aimed at indicting one person or another.

In 2017, the former Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Mr Emmanuel Kachikwu had written President Buhari following insubordination and illegal award of contracts at state-owned oil company, NNPC under the leadership of Dr. Maikanti Baru.

But somehow the letter found its way into the media after it was leaked by the office of the Chief of Staff. The letter which was written by Dr Kachikwu detailed how Dr Baru took wholesale decisions to make appointments and award contracts without any communication to the board which Mr Kachikwu is chairman.

Mr Kachikwu’s letter was subsequently leaked and many believe that he was not reappointed minister because of the controversy that trailed the leak of that letter. He simply was set up way ahead even though he was one of the more cerebral ministers of the first term.

But Mr Kachikwu is one of many to have suffered similar fate. In 2018, the political differences between Senator Shehu Sani and Governor Nasir El-Rufai was at an all time high and there was a lot of back and forth in the media but none topped the leaked letter by Governor El-Rufai to President Buhari.

In what appeared to be a letter of blackmail, Governor El-Rufai listed how Senator Sani was denigrating the President, his political party, APC and himself (El-Rufai). If Governor El-Rufai thought it was going to be a confidential letter, he was wrong because someone ensured that the media got a copy of it.

Fast forward to 2019 and it was Babatunde Fowler’s turn to get a dose of the medicine. After many media reports that Abba Kyari was working tirelessly to have Mr Fowler replaced as executive chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) a letter petitioning Fowler was leaked.

The letter was signed by Mr Kyari was titled: ‘RE: Budgeted FIRS Collection And Actual Collections’ sought to probe Mr Fowler’s competence and to also suggest that he had failed in his role improve revenue collection when in the real sense, Mr Fowler was breaking records for revenue collection especially non-oil revenue collection.

The leaked letter turned out to be the first attempt to ridicule Mr Fowler. Months after the leaked letter, another letter written by Mr Fowler to President Buhari making himself available for reappointment was leaked.

Mr Fowler’s letter was in line with FIRS Establishment Act of 2007. The letter which should have stayed between the sender and receiver was leaked to the media. Mr Fowler was subsequently not reappointed by President Buhari.

The former Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita was not spared. Following the controversial reinstatement and posting of the embattled former chairman of the Pension Reforms Commission, Abdulrasheed Maina, Mrs Oyo-Ita wrote a letter to clear the air.

If she thought it was a confidential element, she was wrong because the media got wind of it. President Buhari had to summon both Mrs Oyo-Ita and Mr Kyari over the leaked memo.

Speaking on the trend, an inside source said it is worrying that confidential documents are been leaked repeatedly. “The trend is very disturbing. The office of the Chief of Staff should not be leaking confidential letters is makes Nigeria look weak globally.”

The compelling argument is that all these leaks have one thing or the other to do with office of the Chief of Staff. This is just the fact. So why is this the case? Let us pray that another Fifth Columnist is not in existence to once again rubbish the credibility and legacy of the reformer government of this day.

Their ineptitude and cluelessness reeks to d high heavens so dey were bound to turn on demselves

The couriers and secretaries are usually responsible.

The writer himself do purposely leak the letters to the public so as to inform the public, his travails.

Nevertheless, most leaks come from the couriers. Some sell it as information to journalists who won't hesitate to stop them on the way and glance through the documents

"...rubbish the credibility and legacy of the reformer government of this day."


Is this your opinion about the Buhari govt really true?

I suspect that mere commissioner of condolence and #10,000

May be the lady that was assassinated.
i think they said she works in the villa,

In a sane clime, there is nothing to leak if you have nothing to hide and if you do the right thing.

she was just assassinated

Every iberiberism must be exposed.

A Director in the state house was assasinated after the leak

Ameachi's head of security died in a shower from electrocution after a security breach

Pinnacle boss slumped and died after he and top govt officials were implicated in communications digitalization contracts


Go figure. Huge coincidences

Bloody regimes like buhari's fulani led regime that dedicates a greater percentage of time to fight themselves will never last.
When this regime is overthrown, by overthrown I mean ''Collapse,'' buhari, Kyari and all the others who make up the fulani cabals in the Villa must be apprehended, tried and prosecuted for Treason.
DNA test should also be done on the terrorist to put the record straight and accertain whether the one parading himself in Aso Rock as President is an Imposter. For me personally, I believe the terrorist currently parading himself as buhari is an imposter! The rubbish currently going on in Aso Rock where the seat of power has been reduced into a personal kingdom by few bloody terrorist from Futajalon has made it easy for intelligent minds to connect all the dots about the possibility of Impostor in Aso Rock.
A chief of staff preciding over national security meetings, and arms procurement contracts goes a long was to prove the theory that the terrorist currently occupying Aso Rock is a dummy placed there on PORPOSE by a ''Shadow Group'' (Cabals if you like). While the dummy (Imposter) is fronted as the face of the regime, the shadow group rules the country. There's no greater crime of treason than for a group of evil minded men to install a impostor at the seat of power for them to rule a country indirectly to achieve an agenda.
So far every event occuring in the Villa has shown in black and white that the chief of staff is the head of the shadow group ruling the country behind the shadows, while the dummy parading himself as president is nothing but a figure head.
All members of APC fulani led regime must be arrested. There's more to this satanic regime than meets the eye.

ONE NIGERIA IS DEAD!

GMB and his forty thieves

Yankee101:
A Director in the state house was assasinated after the leak

Ameachi's head of security died in a shower from electrocution after a security breach

Pinnacle boss slumped and died after he and top govt officials were implicated in communications digitalization contracts


Go figure. Huge coincidences

They're now resorting to assasinations to hide secrets about the fact that the dummy being paraded as president is nothing but a figure head.
ONE NIGERIA IS DEAD.

Abba Kyari is quite incompetent

tracychelsea13:
By Abdulrasaq Olaosebikan

Before then Chief of Army Staff, General Ibrahim Babangida removed then head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, some things were planned ahead of time to discredit the head of State.

One that many Nigerians will not forget in a hurry is the raid on the home and library of Chief Obafemi Awolowo in Ikenne, Ogun State. Later chronicles of Nigeria's government and politics described some of those plots to discredit the disciplined and focused General Buhari and Idiagbon's government as the handiwork of Fifth Columnists.

The question today is: are there Fifth Columnists in the Buhari Presidency using their inside connections to undermine the administration and threatening its credibility and legacy? 

For instance why is so many official leaks taking place including this week's leak of a stinker from the National Security Adviser, General Babagana Munguno to the Chief of Staff Abba Kyari? 

Since the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari took office in 2015, Nigerians have witnessed a number of official documents  purpotedly leaked from the office of the Chief of Staff to the President, Alhaji Abba Kyari. What can't be denied is that the Chief of Staff's office is the recurring decimal in all the leaks.

Some analysts argue that those leaks were deliberately carried out and  deployed as a tactic and  means of settling political scores

A simple online check found that no less than four official/classified documents have leaked from Mr Kyari’s office most of them aimed at indicting one person or another.

In 2017, the former Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Mr Emmanuel Kachikwu had written President Buhari following insubordination and illegal award of contracts at state-owned oil company, NNPC under the leadership of Dr. Maikanti Baru.

But somehow the letter found its way into the media after it was leaked by the office of the Chief of Staff. The letter which was written by Dr Kachikwu detailed how Dr Baru took wholesale decisions to make appointments and award contracts without any communication to the board which Mr Kachikwu is chairman.

Mr Kachikwu’s letter was subsequently leaked and many believe that he was not reappointed minister because of the controversy that trailed the leak of that letter. He simply was set up way ahead even though he was one of the more cerebral ministers of the first term.

But Mr Kachikwu is one of many to have suffered similar fate. In 2018, the political differences between Senator Shehu Sani and Governor Nasir El-Rufai was at an all time high and there was a lot of back and forth in the media but none topped the leaked letter by Governor El-Rufai to President Buhari.

In what appeared to be a letter of blackmail, Governor El-Rufai listed how Senator Sani was denigrating the President, his political party, APC and himself (El-Rufai). If Governor El-Rufai thought it was going to be a confidential letter, he was wrong because someone ensured that the media got a copy of it.

Fast forward to 2019 and it was Babatunde Fowler’s turn to get a dose of the medicine. After many media reports that Abba Kyari was working tirelessly to have Mr Fowler replaced as executive chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) a letter petitioning Fowler was leaked.

The letter was signed by Mr Kyari was titled: ‘RE: Budgeted FIRS Collection And Actual Collections’ sought to probe Mr Fowler’s competence and to also suggest that he had failed in his role improve revenue collection when in the real sense, Mr Fowler was breaking records for revenue collection especially non-oil revenue collection.

The leaked letter turned out to be the first attempt to ridicule Mr Fowler. Months after the leaked letter, another letter written by Mr Fowler to President Buhari making himself available for reappointment was leaked.

Mr Fowler’s letter was in line with FIRS Establishment Act of 2007. The letter which should have stayed between the sender and receiver was leaked to the media. Mr Fowler was subsequently not reappointed by President Buhari.

The former Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita was not spared. Following the controversial reinstatement and posting of the embattled former chairman of the Pension Reforms Commission, Abdulrasheed Maina, Mrs Oyo-Ita wrote a letter to clear the air.

If she thought it was a confidential element, she was wrong because the media got wind of it. President Buhari had to summon both Mrs Oyo-Ita and Mr Kyari over the leaked memo.

Speaking on the trend, an inside source said it is worrying that confidential documents are been leaked repeatedly. “The trend is very disturbing. The office of the Chief of Staff should not be leaking confidential letters is makes Nigeria look weak globally.”

The compelling argument is that all these leaks have one thing or the other to do with office of the Chief of Staff. This is just the fact. So why is this the case? Let us pray that another Fifth Columnist is not in existence to once again rubbish the credibility and legacy of the reformer government of this day.

And same Abba Khari had strong links and allies in the media long before his appointment into politics

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Officialgarri:
The couriers and secretaries are usually responsible.

The writer himself do purposely leak the letters to the public so as to inform the public, his travails.

Nevertheless, most leaks come from the couriers. Some sell it as information to journalists who won't hesitate to stop them on the way and glance through the documents

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itsme01:
Abba Kyari is quite incompetent

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Whatever thing that is official and confidential must be kept secret unless the custodian is careless. About Abba Kyari, hmmm...

Are you still in doubt about the level of incompetence in the Buhari govt?

Only God knows but whosever behind it shall be exposed

GamalNasser:
Are you still in doubt about the level of incompetence in the Buhari govt?

So who is not competent now,can you compare this government with the previous one

We have leaked memo in the top offices around the world. Let's not blow this out of proportion

BlackfireX:
I suspect that mere commissioner of condolence and #10,000

You are clearly clueless of the trend. You are so irresponsible to grasp the bone of contention.

You call someone that has champion the affair of the country far better than any other VP that and you think you have said something meaningful. You are a shame to your people sorry to say. #YourEducationIsAWaste

Fingers crossed.

saaron:
They're now resorting to assasinations to hide secrets about the fact that the dummy being paraded as president is nothing but a figure head.
ONE NIGERIA IS DEAD.

Can you compare the development of Buhari/Osinbajo with the previous administration who did nothing then

BlackfireX:
I suspect that mere commissioner of condolence and #10,000

You need to mention a particular person so that I will know how to reply you , mtchewwww

Reformer govt my early morning poo.

Rubbish and Abba Kyari.

BlackfireX:
I suspect that mere commissioner of condolence and #10,000

How I wish you have a better life by singing this song of 'condolence and #10000' , but instead, you are just like a stagnant water. I pity you guy.

Yankee101:
A Director in the state house was assasinated after the leak

Ameachi's head of security died in a shower from electrocution after a security breach

Pinnacle boss slumped and died after he and top govt officials were implicated in communications digitalization contracts


Go figure. Huge coincidences

Buhari.. Kyari and Aso rock cabal should be apprehended and tried for treason after their devilish tenure...

This I'm sure of

I am so happy this is happening because other we would not know what is going on in the government.

These people are so secluded but thankfully my company is not, and we're looking for a skilled digital marketer.

Please, apply or recommend to someone who might need the job and meets the requirements to apply. Salary is N100-150K

https://www.nairaland.com/5695635/digital-marketing-associate-growing-agency

Deputy1111:
How I wish you have a better life by singing this song of 'condolence and #10000' , but instead, you are just like a stagnant water. I pity you guy.

Pity yourself.. Defending those impoverishing you.. Shame

okefrancis:

So who is not competent now,can you compare this government with the previous one

This is most incompetent govt Nigeria has ever had