With the inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari as president a few hours away, it has emerged that infighting between a former Chief of Army Staff, General Abdulrahman Dambazzau and top former military officers from the north over key security appointments may threaten the cohesion of the incoming administration.PointBlankNews reports that the former military leaders, it was gathered, are unhappy that Dambazzau is already asserting himself as National Security Adviser (NSA)-designate, claiming he solely determines who gets any security and military appointment in the incoming administration.While the retired officers have reportedly aligned with Buhari’s decision to appoint key security and military aides from any part of the country outside of the core north, Dambazzau may have cladenstinely effected the appointment of a certain Lt. Col M. Lawal Abubakar as Buhari’s ADC.Abubakar like Dambazzau belongs to the military police corps and hails from the same Kano State. He is a member of the 44th Regular Course of Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA).As Lt. Col, Dambazzau was NDA’s registrar and was the anchor person on the Armed Forces selection board that admitted Abubakar and other cadets of the 44th Regular Course. 44th Regular Course was the most controversial intake into the NDA as Kano State, against the academy’s rule of admitting equal number of cadets per state, unexplicably had nearly double the number of intakes than any other state.Aside the admission blunder, military sources told Pointblanknews.com that several members of Course 44 from Kano dn’t have the required five O’Level credits and had to be writing the examinations as undergraduates of the Defence Academy.Dambazzau had reportedly attempted to foist Lt. Col. Yakassai, who was his ADC as Chief of Army Staff on Buhari, but that the president-elect flatly rejected the proposal.Like Abubakar, Yakassai was a member of the controversial 44th Regular Course, and served as ADC during Rabi’u Kwankwaso’s tenure as Minister of Defence and Dambazzau as Army Chief.On two attempts, Yakassai reportedly failed his promotion examinations and passed on the third attempt after Dambazzau’s personally intervention as Army Chief.The former military leaders from the north are reportedly worried that handing Buhari a core northern ADC would cast the president-elect in the mould of an ethnic champion.“Look at Obasanjo. The two ADCs that served him were from Edo State. The Late Yar’Adua’s ADC is from Delta State. Jonathan’s ADC is from Kogi, so why not get an ADC outside of the north west as Buhari’s ADC?” quizzed a retired two-star general.He continued, “True, there are no hard and fast rules about appointing ADCs. Howevern, the practice both in the military and for deserving political office holders is for the principal to appoint his ADC, being a personal aide, on the basis of his“In the alternative where due to the seniority gap between the principal and the officer, the practice is for the Army to avail the principal a shortlist of competent field officers between the ranks of Major and Lt. Colonel with accompanying briefs or a ‘pen picture’ of the candidate,” he added.Pointblanknews.com gathered that the Army was to send such shortlist with briefs to Buhari, and that the president was looking forward to making his preference, but that Dambazzau scuttled the process to enable his legman emerge.“Fully aware of the powers and influence of the ADC, the most important link between the president and the military, it comes as little surprise that Dambazzau so desperately wants to be responsible for appointing one for Buhari so he can effectively be in total control,” alleged a retired officer.Pointblanknews.com also gathered that Dambazzau had raised eyebrows when he sent a long list of soldiers and officers to be trained to replace the bodyguard elements in the presidential villa usually drawn from the DSS, Police and Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), fueling concerns on his motives.Read more http://newswirengr.com/2015/05/30/dambazzau-the-infighting-ongoing-between-ex-northern-military-leaders-over-security-appointments-in-buharis-government/

THE ONLY CRITERIA WAS HIS TRIBE

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APC and Nigeria are for a change indeed. Most officers of Nigerian armed forces from the northern region, including M. Buhari, are products of corruption. How could Nigerians not see the above debacle before casting their vote for corruption incarnate? Anyways majority of ill-educated Nigerians have always deduced that embezzlement of funds is the only corruption in the book.

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Which picture is the writer trying to paint? O'level issue, NSA or how Buhari ADC was appointed issue? Muntulas!

Duru1:
APC and Nigeria are for a change indeed. Most officers of Nigerian armed forces from the northern region, including M. Buhari, are products of corruption. How could Nigerians not see the above debacle before casting their vote for corruption incarnate? Anyways majority of ill-educated Nigerians have always deduced that embezzlement of funds is the only corruption in the book.

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How on earth will anybody believe this gutter news.

Abi dem wan use zoning again choose ADC. So how does Dambazzau and co. solve my basic problems? The media should stop reporting what is irrelevant to the moving forward of this nation.

This is total hogwash. The writer decided to throw professional reporting to the dogs.
Gmb is a retired major general that has earned his stripes in thesame army you are talking about so how can dambazau dictate to him about who to appoint as Aide de camp.

fretnot:
With the inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari as president a few hours away, it has emerged that infighting between a former Chief of Army Staff, General Abdulrahman Dambazzau and top former military officers from the north over key security appointments may threaten the cohesion of the incoming administration.PointBlankNews reports that the former military leaders, it was gathered, are unhappy that Dambazzau is already asserting himself as National Security Adviser (NSA)-designate, claiming he solely determines who gets any security and military appointment in the incoming administration.While the retired officers have reportedly aligned with Buhari’s decision to appoint key security and military aides from any part of the country outside of the core north, Dambazzau may have cladenstinely effected the appointment of a certain Lt. Col M. Lawal Abubakar as Buhari’s ADC.Abubakar like Dambazzau belongs to the military police corps and hails from the same Kano State. He is a member of the 44th Regular Course of Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA).As Lt. Col, Dambazzau was NDA’s registrar and was the anchor person on the Armed Forces selection board that admitted Abubakar and other cadets of the 44th Regular Course. 44th Regular Course was the most controversial intake into the NDA as Kano State, against the academy’s rule of admitting equal number of cadets per state, unexplicably had nearly double the number of intakes than any other state.Aside the admission blunder, military sources told Pointblanknews.com that several members of Course 44 from Kano dn’t have the required five O’Level credits and had to be writing the examinations as undergraduates of the Defence Academy.Dambazzau had reportedly attempted to foist Lt. Col. Yakassai, who was his ADC as Chief of Army Staff on Buhari, but that the president-elect flatly rejected the proposal.Like Abubakar, Yakassai was a member of the controversial 44th Regular Course, and served as ADC during Rabi’u Kwankwaso’s tenure as Minister of Defence and Dambazzau as Army Chief.On two attempts, Yakassai reportedly failed his promotion examinations and passed on the third attempt after Dambazzau’s personally intervention as Army Chief.The former military leaders from the north are reportedly worried that handing Buhari a core northern ADC would cast the president-elect in the mould of an ethnic champion.“Look at Obasanjo. The two ADCs that served him were from Edo State. The Late Yar’Adua’s ADC is from Delta State. Jonathan’s ADC is from Kogi, so why not get an ADC outside of the north west as Buhari’s ADC?” quizzed a retired two-star general.He continued, “True, there are no hard and fast rules about appointing ADCs. Howevern, the practice both in the military and for deserving political office holders is for the principal to appoint his ADC, being a personal aide, on the basis of his“In the alternative where due to the seniority gap between the principal and the officer, the practice is for the Army to avail the principal a shortlist of competent field officers between the ranks of Major and Lt. Colonel with accompanying briefs or a ‘pen picture’ of the candidate,” he added.Pointblanknews.com gathered that the Army was to send such shortlist with briefs to Buhari, and that the president was looking forward to making his preference, but that Dambazzau scuttled the process to enable his legman emerge.“Fully aware of the powers and influence of the ADC, the most important link between the president and the military, it comes as little surprise that Dambazzau so desperately wants to be responsible for appointing one for Buhari so he can effectively be in total control,” alleged a retired officer.Pointblanknews.com also gathered that Dambazzau had raised eyebrows when he sent a long list of soldiers and officers to be trained to replace the bodyguard elements in the presidential villa usually drawn from the DSS, Police and Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), fueling concerns on his motives.Read more http://newswirengr.com/2015/05/30/dambazzau-the-infighting-ongoing-between-ex-northern-military-leaders-over-security-appointments-in-buharis-government/

Baseless write up! I wonder how some ppl come up with lies. It was the same army that posted ADC to buhari. Some one is claiming dambazau choose it for buhari.

People, I am yet to make meaning of this topic. This ADC was my camp commandant and is a fine officer. I do not think there should be zoning in this job. He is the one meant to take the bullet for his boss and Buhari has chosen whom he trusts.

Lets move on. And by the way, he made camp really fun while instilling discipline. I would choose him as my ADC too.

Buhari would have to be brainless(which he may or may not be) to let Dambazzau foist an ADC on him. It's more likely that he leaned on Dambazau's familiarity with the present crop of officers and embraced his suggestions as he made his decision. I don't really understand all the fuss accompanying this appointment. While a highly visible position, the ADC is not necessarily a powerful position. Sure, he can take advantage of his proximity to solicit personal favors from the president, but he's not going to influence military policy more than the service chiefs or the chief of defense staff.
Al Mustapha, as Abacha's CSO wielded more power than the ADC at the time could ever dream of having. I'll even suggest that the Chief Security Officer(CSO) is more essential to the president, in ensuring his safety. If it ever gets to the point where the ADC has to personally defend the president, his security has long been compromised.
Besides, I hear the new ADC was a mighty fine boy-soldier in the military school, and by all indications is an outstanding officer. I expect him to maintain the standard.

APC = tribalism = power to the North, crumbs to the West then others may be considered.

Duru1:
APC and Nigeria are for a change indeed. Most officers of Nigerian armed forces from the northern region, including M. Buhari, are products of corruption. How could Nigerians not see the above debacle before casting their vote for corruption incarnate? Anyways majority of ill-educated Nigerians have always deduced that embezzlement of funds is the only corruption in the book.

Buhari's final decision on this matter will be telling indeed.

You were expecting an ibo ADC. Lol awon oloshi.

captainBIAFRA:
THE ONLY CRITERIA WAS HIS TRIBE

The ONLY problem you have with the choice is TRIBE. ibo ADC my foot lol

One of the criteria used in choosing the president is his faith, necause it is expected the ADC follows his principal and worship as well.

Mustapha Dennis Onoyiveta a very competent officer presently a brigadier was the ADC to Yaradua, He is Urhobo from Delta state but a muslim.

And honestly the idea of a soldier standing behind our president should be abandoned at best the ADC should be his military assistant afterall the president security is handled by the CSO

Durinsday:
People, I am yet to make meaning of this topic. This ADC was my camp commandant and is a fine officer. I do not think there should be zoning in this job. He is the one meant to take the bullet for his boss and Buhari has chosen whom he trusts.

Lets move on. And by the way, he made camp really fun while instilling discipline. I would choose him as my ADC too.

Did you serve in Kogi State.

I don't see any reason for this kinda publicity.. The data not information above makes no sense to me

Norherners always look out for their own no matter what. Nigeria to them is just an appendage. It is only we from the South that practises one Nigeria.

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I ve never liked a soldier standing behind the president like a statue

I saw somewhere where it was said som1 failed his promotion exams twice,and it took d intervention of another oga for him to pass on d 3rd attempt.
This is exactly what led to d civil war,unbridled nepotism and corruption by d born to rule hegemonists.

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