Buhari’s kinsmen pressurising President to reinstate sacked DSS boss — Junaid Mohammed

A federal lawmaker in the Second Republic, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, tells JOHN ALECHENU that the handling of the current crisis in the National Assembly will determine the fate of the country’s democracy


What do you make of the invasion of the National Assembly by operatives of the Department of State Services?


From what we have heard so far, the Director-General of the State Security Services who was at the centre of it all hasn’t confirmed his loyalty either to the President, Acting President, or for that matter, to the Senate and other institutions of governance in this country. There are suggestions out there that he is acting in cahoots with Bukola Saraki.

Well in Nigeria, nothing could be too surprising because there are quite a number of double agents in virtually every branch of government, in every ministry and every department and these are people who are for sale or have their own ambitions to service and they don’t care about the national interest. One has to be very careful about evaluating what actually happened, what was supposed to happen and what didn’t happen. While there was noise about locking down the Senate, there were people within and they were senators.

Is it being suggested that these people went in and said lock us in? The question is, if there was an intention to lock everybody out, how come some people found their ways in and sat there? The story making the rounds is that some people decided they would come early in order to be part of the agenda of what they were going to do that morning.


Whatever the theory being peddled about the incident what does it portend for our democracy?


What happened was very unfortunate and whichever side you want to blame or give credit to, it has really reduced our country, our democracy to that of a banana republic and the fact that since the event happened, there has been no statement-except the one which came from the office of the Acting President, denying any involvement in what happened.

Now, this Lawan Daura has been arrested and all the noise about searches being conducted in his house or houses either in Abuja or other places. What happened or did not happen to him is a story for another day. As far as I am concerned, the event itself has been a great disservice to this country and as I said, it has reduced us to the place of a banana republic which is very, very unfortunate.

This democracy has cost us so much in terms of money, in terms of labour, in terms of political argumentation for it to be seen to be threatened this way by a gangster and a few of his service men holding huge Israeli guns, it is really unfortunate and it speaks volumes about the kind of government we are running and the kind of leadership we have.

Since the event happened and the dismissal and arrest of Lawan Daura there has been no statement from Buhari himself, only guess work. There is also the spin that what (Yemi) Osinbajo did; he did it with the knowledge and blessings of Buhari.

There is an ethnic attempt by those who are related to Buhari, who are from Daura, who must be related to Lawan Daura, who now want to travel to the United Kingdom to ask Buhari to reverse himself and virtually bring back Lawan Daura and then sack the National Security Adviser who was supposed to be Lawan Daura’s boss but who he never respected and who he was not even in speaking terms with.

You can see that the whole thing now is becoming a typical Nigerian football game where everybody kicks it the way he likes. It is very unfortunate and it is more or less heading towards a climax of the kind of Presidency we chose for ourselves in 2015 and the kind of situation Nigeria now finds itself. It speaks volumes about the incompetence and the irresponsibility of this Presidency, the ruling party and the main opposition party and all seems to be a bloody mess.

If you recall, like I told you before the elections and thereafter, that there is no difference between the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, which are in fact two sides of the same coin. This is now becoming absolutely clear. This kind of two-party system and close to one hundred others calling themselves political parties being registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, will not serve our democracy well.

We, as Nigerians, will have to start thinking about a way out. I have had occasions to talk to people in the media to say look, since this Saraki fellow sneaked into the Senate under the cover of darkness to cut a deal with the PDP, the Senate has known no peace. When you undermine the Senate, you essentially undermine the two chambers of the National Assembly. Why is it that every time anything concerns Bukola Saraki it becomes a crisis, why?


Do you think the leadership style the new National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, has employed will bring about the cohesion the party is seeking to get before going into the 2019 elections?


No. To the contrary, it will add to the existing confusion and acts of gangsterism and the use of uncouth language synonymous with the lifestyle of gangsters, he is bringing it into our political scene. What we had before he became national chairman of the party was already too much. Bringing Oshiomhole and making him chairman of the party, add that to the blunders of President Muhammadu Buhari and his presidency; simply means Nigeria and the political system should be ready to pay a high price.

Nobody in his right senses will look at this fellow (Oshiomhole) and think he can be a political party leader who can maintain some harmony, some level-headed approach to sorting out problems. He has now become more or less the glorified National Publicity Secretary of the APC.

In Nigeria, if you are the publicity secretary of a party, your job is to go and abuse everybody other than your own party and that is what he has been doing. Nobody for example, now knows that the APC has a publicity secretary other than him. He has been abusing other parties and their leaders and the others return the favour by abusing him, the government, the President and everything thereafter.

I don’t believe Adams Oshiomhole has the qualities of a political party leader and that in addition to so many other blunders and display of bad faith by Buhari himself has further complicated matters. I would have thought that if you are a president of a country, you have a vested interest in the maintenance of peace and measure of civility in the political system.

But this President seems to be the kind of person that encourages corrupt, abusive rogues and scoundrels to be the major players in the political system. This does the country no good; it doesn’t do the ruling party any good. Oshiomhole is now in the middle of this crisis. In fact, he is making his own reputation by the way he is behaving.

I can assure you, he has a more hard-line posture than those people in the Senate that have a vested interest in their political careers than him because he is a spent force. Here in Nigeria if you mess up in a job, you get promoted to a higher job that is typical of the Buhari administration.


The legislators have also had a cause to complain about the President’s slow response to national issues requiring urgency. Do you share their concerns?


It takes a while to build a reputation. If somebody handles certain sensitive and strategic assignments badly, insensitively, corruptly and without due international interest, it will be expecting too much to think the same person under similar circumstances will come up with something better. Essentially, from 2015 to date, Buhari has been governing the country the only way he knows and you and I will agree that his best is not good enough for Nigeria. In a democracy, you don’t blame people for their electoral choices.

You must have seen it in the news media that people are blaming President Donald Trump for every crisis the global economy is going through. It is the same problem we have since we chose Buhari as president without taking a look at his capacity and allowing his relatives and friends deliberately choosing to hide the truth about his health status physically and mentally from the rest of Nigeria, this is what we are reaping. To make matters worse, he is now determined to return for a second term to repeat the same thing.

It took him six months to appoint a ministerial team what do we have? He promised to change his cabinet over one year ago, what has happened? This is the worse cabinet ever assembled in Nigeria since 1914.

https://punchng.com/buharis-kinsmen-pressurising-president-to-reinstate-sacked-dss-boss-junaid-mohammed/

all these long talk, and still i found no place where it says Buhari is in pressure to reinstate the DSS boss.

Junk journalism

Oga.. this post too long.. Lemme summarize it for you: 1. We are not running the government.. Na them dey run us foreign. 2. Buhari and his administration are incompetent and offer no positive change. 3. Vote out buhari come 2019. * any other point?

they should reinstate the man..

oshiomole and his gang of pigs set the guy up.. and went to hide behind Osibanjo.

APC is on self explosion.. Daura fit be their final nemesis.. while the barking dog is busy hyperventilating

I don't see anything whatsover,wrong with them asking him to reinstate him.he is one of theirs.

Interesting

Just to spite Osinbaba

donbachi:
I don't see anything whatsover,wrong with them asking him to reinstate him.he is one of theirs.

Do you see anything wrong with nepotism?

The man will most likely listen to his relatives.

This one na just to sell paper and give wailers something to keep their mind busy with

Does Buhari still think by himself



A desperate failure who contest 4 TIMES before been elected out of pity wants to continue ruling? That's impossible.



Daura is sure.

If true, They must all be madt for telling Our President such crazy thing!

I pray this happens. It will be clear to all that buhari is directly involved in all the nemesis that has befallen this country in the last 2.5 years.

Ok

"..Since the event happened and the dismissal and arrest of Lawan Daura there has been no statement from Buhari himself, only guess work.....

There is an ethnic attempt by those who are related to Buhari, who are from Daura, who must be related to Lawan Daura, who now want to travel to the United Kingdom to ask Buhari to reverse himself and virtually bring back Lawan Daura and then sack the National Security Adviser who was supposed to be Lawan Daura’s boss but who he never respected and who he was not even in speaking terms with.
But this President seems to be the kind of person that encourages corrupt, abusive rogues and scoundrels to be the major players in the political system.......Here in Nigeria if you mess up in a job, you get promoted to a higher job that is typical of the Buhari administration."

Buhari is not and have never been in charge of this government.

Fake alarmist and attention seeker...
Always cooking up stories to remain relevant

I hope Buhari goes ahead and re-instate daura on Monday

Buhari is lawless and I will not be surprised if he does this!

Okay

Follow my signature

donbachi:
I don't see anything whatsover,wrong with them asking him to reinstate him.he is one of theirs.

Will 30k allow you to see anything wrong?

can 2019 come already? PVC is eager

Ok

All I can say is sai baba

who go read all Dis tin

Rubbish talk

APC Cows and their childish deception strategies. As if we don't know already know that Daura was appointed not because of what he knows but because of who he knows.

Daura was sacked because he was skimming from APC's campaign funds kept in his custody.

It was considered to be more politically expedient to sack Daura on the grounds of disloyalty than to sack him because of his corruption since he was handpicked by the dull-ard.

The dull-ard's poor decision to pick Daura as head of the DSS ahead of more qualified and more senior officials was informed by no other reason than the fact that Daura is his nephew.

If you are really gullible enough to believe that Daura was sacked for collaborating with Saraki then maybe you need professional evaluation.

We’ve all been watching the special investigation of Donald Trump by Robert Mueller to prove Trump's alleged collaboration with Russians to influence the 2016 US Presidential elections. Mueller has found email evidence, phone calls audio tapes of meetings etc.

But when it came to the Dullard and his team of professional clowns in Nigeria, mysteriously they could not produce any evidence of phone logs showing calls between Daura and Saraki, no evidence of email correspondences, no evidence of wire or electronic transfer of money, no evidence of video tapes showing Daura meeting with Saraki in this day and age when you can order for a pen camera on Jumia and Konga which can be concealed in ones pocket. Have we forgotten that Farouk Lawan was nabbed by Otedola using a similar device? And crucially, there is no Bank Statement of account or similar evidence linking Daura with Saraki.

So where is the proof that Daura was under Saraki’s influence?

APC, the Association of Professional Clowns (or is it Cows?) just vomitted rubbish and everyone has been lapping it up like zobo.

Op

I don't be surprised if that happens. Please, nobody should abuse Buhari here.


Sai Barber

Make una dey lie dey go we sabi... na style una want use put am back.... Na lie dey rush this Government...





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