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A day after signing Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contract Amendment Bill into law in London, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sack at least 35 out of over 80 aides in the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, DAILY NIGERIAN can reliably report.

The president is currently in London, United Kingdom for a two-week “private visit” and is expected back in Abuja on November 17.



DAILY NIGERIAN gathered that the affected aides, who were issued appointment letters in August included some Senior Special Assistants, Special Assistants, Personal Assistants and Technical Assistants.

Credible sources who preferred anonymity said the aides may be formally issued their sack letters on Wednesday.

Preparatory to their eventual dismissal, DAILY NIGERIAN learnt the aides were posted out to some line ministries relevant to their designation last month. The move was allegedly to deny them access to the Villa and reduce the influence of the vice president.

“Although more than half of the aides are under the payroll of donor agencies, the cabal eased them out in order to whittle down the influence of the vice president,” said a source familiar with the development.

“None of them were queried or interdicted for any wrongdoing. It is not about cutting cost, because no aide was sacked in the president’s office nor office of the First Lady, where six more aides appointed less than one month ago. They were just sacked to reduce the VP’s influence.”



Both spokesmen for the president and vice president, Garba Shehu and Laolu Akande respectively, did not respond to a text message seeking their reaction to the development.

Osinbajo’s travails

There seems to be a frosty relationship between the president and his deputy since the beginning of their second term in office, with the president transferring some agencies under the Mr Osinbajo’s control to either his office or some ministries.

Insiders said the president’s powerful handlers, otherwise known as cabal, were unhappy with some critical decisions taken by the vice president in the president’s absence.



Feelers believe that top among Mr Osinbajo’s “crimes” was the sack of Lawal Daura, erstwhile director-general of the State Security Service, SSS, when Mr Osinbajo was acting president in August last year.

Another decision that drew the ire of the cabal was transmitting a letter to the Senate in February 2017, seeking confirmation of then acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Walter Samuel Onnoghen.

But the president first wielded the big stick by taking away the Special Intervention Programmes, SIPs, from the vice president’s office to the newly created Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development.

The SIPs include the famous TraderMoni, the Home-grown School Feeding Programme, Government Economic Empowerment Programme, N-Power, among others.



On September 16, Mr Buhari replaced Osinbajo-led Economic Management Team with Economic Advisory Council that will directly report to his (president’s) office.

According a report by PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday, even the controversial RUGA project has also been taken from Mr Osinbajo’s control after the recommendation of the president’s powerful Chief of Staff Abba Kyari.

Taking a cue from Olusegun Obasanjo?

Shortly after President Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn-in for a second term in May 2003, his relationship with his deputy, Atiku Abubakar, became sour over latter’s alleged plan to contest against him at the party’s primaries.



At the peak of estrangement, the former president fired Mr Atiku’s key aides in order to allegedly settle the political scores.

Those fired by Mr Obasanjo in July 2006 included Adeolu Akande, Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, Chris Mammah, Shina Ayati, Sam Oyovbaire, Lawal Jafaru Isa and Garba Shehu.

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When will they sack Mr. Starboy sef?
Fire wey burn he goat bear bear, na the face be the target.

MelesZenawi:



[s]Go educate yourself.

He is the one In-charge of all affairs[/s].

Say something intelligent for once.

Westtimeline:
See how shameless you sound. Spit on your level of education.

Them say buhari and his cabal are dealing with osunbade,you no get 1 sentence to talk against buhari,na d person we talk against buhari you go face?
what manner of slave una be for hausa/Fulani?
why una de fear hausa/Fulani them like this?

voltron14:

Say something intelligent for once.

Wait till they impeach Osibanjo

Resign? Typical Nigeria will not resign from political appointment irrespective of the humiliation. It is even worse if he's Yoruba.

truthfulparrot:
If this news is true, I expect Osibanjo to resign immediately in protest. If not, he will be disgraced out.

ursullalinda:
In a sane country a prof like Osibanjo cant be a Vice to some one who can't locate his certificate.

Don't be surprise if the midget's educational qualification is equally a fluke like that of his role model boss.

MelesZenawi:



Go educate yourself.

He is the one In-charge of all affairs.

Who ? The president or your imaginary cabal.

Illiterate talking about education

Stop dressing the VP in a false moral garb. If he has a high moral standard and honesty, he will never ad accepted to serve as Buhari's VP

Futuragetty:

Eeyah but what is the VP's office doing with 35 aids?
Not sure Th Presidents wields such power.

Buharist will claim that Buhari and Osibanjo has the most harmonious relationship than any President and Vice ever did. They will call us rumor mongers.


Osibanjo was dinning at the mercy of Jagaban.
Buhari needed him to win. Yemi would have been fit for the Office of the AG, with his high moral standard and Honesty. Not the VP.

MelesZenawi:



Wait till they impeach Osibanjo

They asked this ignorant person to come up with something intelligent and he came up with the most ignorant and unintelligent rubbish ever..

NGpatriot:

Who ? The president or your imaginary cabal.
Illiterate talking about education

They have been sacked be say they have been sacked.
case closed

MelesZenawi:



Wait till they impeach Osibanjo

Something Obasanjo could not do to Atiku.

Some of you should go back to kindergarten.

Uchek:
Stop dressing the VP in a false moral garb. If he has a high moral standard and honesty, he will never ad accepted to serve as Buhari's VP

Of course.

I'm sure you think Peter Obi is a sincere leader and would make a good VP or even President.

voltron14:

Something Obasanjo could not do to Atiku.
Some of you should go back to kindergarten.

Atiku is a strong man and hard-working.
Osibanjo is a puppet and a slave.

NGpatriot:


They asked this ignorant person to come up with something intelligent and he came up with the most ignorant and unintelligent rubbish ever..

Till then...

VirginSearcher:
I'm so pained with the way this government is running the affairs of this country, Buhari is senile, there was clear display of ill-health in him at so many occasions, everyone knew he was sick and infact was never supposed to run again yet foo.lish Nigerians still voted him due to tribalism, selfishness, greed and illiteracy now look at what is happening. Mention any progressive country the president always travels outside based on health ground and run the country from there?. The way things are been administered in this country presently and how they are treating Osibanjo is sad, we have never had it so bad like this. It's not supposed to be so!

Cry on Mr. The Scriptures says no wicked man shall ever go unpunished, Starboy is a confirmed wicked man, & he can never go unpunished.
When a supposedly enlighten man chose to closes his eyes over so many bad things happening & turn around to defend & praise the perpetrators, no that his own time of disgrace is fast approaching.

voltron14:


Something Obasanjo could not do to Atiku.

Some of you should go back to kindergarten.

He's beneath Kindergarten sef.

MelesZenawi:



Till then...

Till you get some education and learn how government works.

NGpatriot:

Till you get some education and learn how government works.

35 sacked and you complaining , when it is obvious more 20 will be sacked.
The Target aides for Osibanjo is 10-15.
They are just cutting him down to size.

MelesZenawi:



Go educate yourself.

He is the one In-charge of all affairs.

U dey mind them, negative-minded and backward people who never see anything good in this government.

And the next level humiliation continues.VP Osinbajo pls the signs are more obvious now. Leave while the ovulation is loudest.

Niaja4real:

Cry on Mr.The Scriptures says no wicked man shall ever go unpunished, Starboy is a confirmed wicked man & he can never go unpunished.

When a supposedly enlighten man chose to closes his eyes over so many bad things happen-ing and turned around to defend & praise the perpetrators, no that his own time of disgrace is fast approaching.

Gbam!

[s]

MelesZenawi:



35 sacked and you complaining , when it is obvious more 20 will be sacked.

The Target aides for Osibanjo is 10-15.

They are just cutting him down to size.

[/s]

Nothing but ignorance comes out of your mouth.

It's not by force to comment.

truthfulparrot:
If this news is true, I expect Osibanjo to resign immediately in protest. If not, he will be disgraced out.

they are scared of him, its called daura syndrome.

Westtimeline:
[s][/s]Tell your father to show me the proof before I make a sentence. Shouting online is not in my blood. Everyone can't be coward like yeebos

Mr man, can't u face the Hausa/Fulani's for once?? They sacked some aides to the VP who is a Yoruba man and u are here attacking the Igbo's.

Or is Buhari an Igbo man??

I have never in my life seen this type of cowardice. Tufia!! I spit on U

It is sad that our amiable VP is been attacked politically for doing his job the way it is suppose to be

This is just a preamble and dress rehearsal.

NGpatriot:
Fake news as usual...
Next...

ohh real ?

when will these humiliation stop

Baba is firing all the way from United Kingdom?
Interesting.

Azmanaty:


Mr man, can't u face the Hausa/Fulani's for once?? They sacked some aides to the VP who is a Yoruba man and u are here attacking the Igbo's.

Or is Buhari an Igbo man??

I have never in my life seen this type of cowardice. Tufia!! I spit on U

Why are you convulsing and bitter over fake news?

Even if true, why are ibo so troubled and obsessed over the VP?

Do you love him so much that you worry about his safety and we'll being?

Abi what is your own? Must Yoruba people act deranged over every fake rubbish or whatever issue ibo people carry on their head?

Good to know ibo people love the VP more than Yoruba people..