State House Press Release

NIA DG: Facts Of The Matter

A lot of half-truths, misinformation, and outright falsehood have attended the announcement of a new Director-General for the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), in the person of Mr Ahmed Rufai Abubakar .

Some of such unfounded stories include that Abubakar had retired from the services of NIA as an Assistant Director, because he failed promotion examinations twice, and had to quit, willy-nilly. Others claim he is married to a Moroccan, and so cannot hold such sensitive security position, while others say he was born and bred in Chad, and he holds dual nationality. All these have been widely disseminated on the social, and some mainstream media. With the formal assumption of office by Mr Abubakar, it is now necessary to set the facts straight.

The new NIA DG retired from Foreign Service as Deputy Director (not Assistant Director) and three times during his career, had won Merit Award for competence and meritorious service. Failing promotion examination can only exist in the fecund minds of fiction writers. His last position before the new appointment was as Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs/International Affairs where again he quietly proved himself.

Abubakar's parents hailed from Katsina State, and had settled in Chad at a point in their lifetime. The new DG did his primary school in Ndjamena (then Fort-Lamy), but returned to Nigeria for his secondary and University education. He never at any time held Chadian nationality.

Mr Abubakar's only wife hails from Katsina State, indeed, from the same community as the husband. The story of being married to a Moroccan can only be tale by moonlight, concocted by people who love a fib.

The President appointed the new DG because he had worked closely with him in the past two years, and sincerely believes that he would add value to the NIA.

Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media and Publicity)
January 28, 2018

Oh!, he's from Katsina

dunkem21:
Oh!, he's from Katsina

Facts only

Abubakar's parents hailed from Katsina State, and had settled in Chad at a point in their lifetime. The new DG did his primary school in Ndjamena (then Fort-Lamy), but returned to Nigeria for his secondary and University education. He never at any time held Chadian nationality.

the head of DSS
the head of inec
the head of nia

This doesn't stop the fact that Buhari's appointments are lopsided favouring his fulani brothers and sisters!

baralatie:
Abubakar's parents hailed from Katsina State, and had settled in Chad at a point in their lifetime. The new DG did his primary school in Ndjamena (then Fort-Lamy), but returned to Nigeria for his secondary and University education. He never at any time held Chadian nationality.

Though his parents is from Katsina, Abubakar himself may be a citizen of Chad by BIRTH!!!

dunkem21:


Though his parents is from Katsina, Abubakar himself may be a citizen of Chad by BIRTH!!!

it is the attitude of the president and his actions to be a person to be "clannish" that is more damaging

The New NIA boss definitely has a chadian passport so do his kids

baralatie:

it is the attitude of the president and his actions to be a person to be "clannish" that is more damaging

We are puncturing both holes in their face, bro.

Tomorrow, he'll tell us that he gave SE four super ministers

This people should be circumspect