United States-based lecturer with sources inside the Aso Rock Villa, Prof. Farooq Kperogi has again come up with claims of the goings-on in Nigeria’s seat of power, particularly as it pertains to the recently appointed Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, who was described as an “outsider on the inside”.

Farooq Kperogi made the latest revelations in an opinion article published on his personal website on Saturday.

The Kwara State-born academic, who had alleged that Gambari’s linguistic “handicap” in the Hausa language would ensure that he isn’t sufficiently close to Buhari, has now claimed that the new Chief of Staff doesn’t have direct access to his boss, but is “only the public face of the office— with some legroom to do the most obvious official requirements of his job”.

He explained that evidence of this has emerged as his attention was drawn to a national daily’s exclusive report published this week which detailed the behind-the-scenes manoeuvres that resulted in the firing of the Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria by the name of Usman Gur Mohammed.

He pointed out that a telling paragraph in that story reads: “The Special Assistant to the President (President Secretariat), Sabi’u Yusuf, the same day, wrote a letter referenced PRES/65-I/COS/3/750, addressed to the CoS, Prof. Gambari, conveying Buhari’s approval of his earlier memo.” The professor then went on to posit that “unlike Abba Kyari who had a direct access to Buhari and whom Buhari said all ministers should meet if they wanted anything from him, Gambari has an intermediary between him and Buhari. And it isn’t just any intermediary; the intermediary is Buhari’s blood relative”.


Kperogi then asserted that “the real Chief of Staff to Buhari is Sabi’u “Tunde” Yusuf (of course, acting on Mamman Daura’s behalf)” and referred to his November 23, 2019 column where he wrote the following about Sabi’u Yusuf: “Sabiu ‘Tunde’ Yusuf.

He is Buhari’s Private Secretary. Don’t be deceived by the ‘Tunde’ in his name. It’s just a nickname, probably inspired by Tunde Idiagbon, Buhari’s deputy when he was a military dictator. Sabiu is the son of Mamman Daura’s full biological sister by the name of Hajia Halima (more popularly known as ‘Hajja Madam’ in Daura) who died last year. As you should know by now, Mamman Daura’s sister is Buhari’s niece since their father (Dauda Daura) is Buhari’s much older half-brother.”

“Sabiu, who is in his 30s, is one of the most powerful people in Nigeria today. He determines who sees and who doesn’t see Buhari.

Only Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari can overrule him. By several accounts, he is now a multi-billionaire, although he had no formal work experience before Buhari became president. He used to sell phone recharge cards in Daura until 2015!”

Writing on how Yusuf was purportedly made the actual Chief of Staff by the “owner of the regime, the columnist wrote: “What has happened after Abba Kyari’s death is that Mamman Daura, Buhari’s emotional and intellectual prop who actually “owns” this regime, has chosen to not share substantive power with any non-blood relative again. He got burned by Abba Kyari whom he introduced to Buhari many years ago.


“He also didn’t trust Babagana Kingibe, a member of the cabal, to succeed Abba Kyari because of Kingibe’s well-earned notoriety for treachery. Isa Funtua, another member of the cabal, publicly said the office of the Chief of Staff to the President was beneath him.

I doubt that Mamman Daura would have supported Funtua’s aspiration even if he desired the position because Funtua’s linguistic and geo-cultural affinities with Buhari might cause him to get as close to Buhari as Abba Kyari was.”

zakim:
I do not understand what this means...COS was a recharge cards seller before?

AJOBI77:


There is another person who serve as an intermediary between the COS and buhari. That person(Yusuf Tunde) sells recharge card until buhari assumed president office. According to this write up, he is the benefacto COS.

Cleared?

Exc2000:



stupid kperoogi keeps falling for buhari's trick

Buhari less than 5 years in service had being involved in major coups(former aguyi ironsi's transport officer), he plotted many(if not all) and one bloodless coup even favoured him as the head of state, yet he was very careful to appear weak and stupid while using fools like Abacha, Jokolo, Idiagbon, Okadigbo, Tunde idiagbon, Tunde bakare, Abba Kyari and now Agboola Gambari

Petroleum Minister at 20s, Governor of Northeast at 30(the man who broke gongola/ northeast state to modern day states like bronu), chief of army staff at 40, head of state at 40, President at 70, you still stupidly think one small boy controls him


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SeverusSnape:

The man (bubu the mumu) is a dullard. Even a goat will control him.

Exc2000:


turn a goat sef and let people control you and become GOC, Minister, Governor/Administrator , Head of State and now 2 terms President before you can call Buhari names

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SeverusSnape:

It doesn't stop the man from being a certified dullard. A dullard whose supporters are zombies and almajiris.

festacman:
Kperogi Farooq: Political fiction writer.

Exc2000:


I bet you are a genius and your dad, your fathers dad is a genius, and your great grand father

I dear you to show us anyone in you family that is a genius that surpass Buhari whose father died at 4

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SeverusSnape:

Bubu the mumu is a dullard. That's the crux of the matter. Stop deflecting. Are you angry that i called your presidiot a dullard

And it's "dare", nor dear. Zombie

Exc2000:


kanu and Ojojwu the under achieving cowards are not dullards and fools lets insult people like Buhari in the class of Obasanjo, Buhari and Gowon since we are insulting without sense , a true characteristics of almajiris and Igbos

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SeverusSnape:

Who's talking of Gowon or Obasanjo or Kanu?
We talking about that goat in aso rock. All these your balderdash doesn't change the fact that the man is a DULLARD.

Agboriotejoye:
Anything Kperoogi writes should be noted and not accepted as the gospel truth. He might be right or not only time will tell.

Exc2000:


if you call him a dullard for 100 more times lets face it he had achieved far more than your generation, family and tribe so with all due respect the dunce calling him a dullard is just a fool in all sense of it

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SeverusSnape:

Bubu the mumu is a disgrace to all goats worldwide.

A lifeless dullard is worse than a lively goat. Chai!