National Security Advisor (NSA) Gen Sarkin Muktar (rtd.) has begun scheming with his godfathers who appointed him on behalf of President Umaru Yar‘Adua to take over the Presidency.

It should be recalled that it was Muktar who led to the embarrassment of this country, when he gave directives to the Foreign Affairs Ministry not to renew the passport of Mallam Nasir el Rufai and Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, which caused a lot of controversies a few months ago.

Muktar started the plots weeks back when he started gathering security reports on the state of health of the President in Saudi Arabia and just like Baba Gana Kingibe, the former Secretary to the Federal Government, has begun intense late night meetings with various stakeholders in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Muktar has often been heard telling associates and subordinates that they can go ahead with tasks without recourse to the President, after all the President himself is ill in Saudi and cannot grant permission and give orders from the sick bed.

The NSA is so power thirsty that he wants to position himself to take over the Presidency in case there becomes a vacuum, and has a fall back plan of being the Vice President to Goodluck Jonathan if Plan A fails, this he believes will prepare him to run for the 2011 election after the cabal would have forced Jonathan to resign. He is currently maneuvering and scheming himself to be the most powerful and strategically placed Northerner to replace Umaru Yar`adua because of his background of being from the same geo-political zone as the president; the same way former President Obasanjo benefited from the June 12 saga.