What security sources regarded as ‘security breach’ occurred at the precincts of the Presidential Villa, State House, Abuja on Thursday night, when the First Lady’s Aide-de-camp, Usman Shugaba, attempted to force President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant, Sabiu Yusuf, into self -isolation over COVID-19 fears.

State House sources told THISDAY that trouble started when Sabiu, President Buhari’s nephew, returned to his residence at the precincts of the Presidential Villa, just outside the Pilot gate, after a trip to Lagos where he had gone to meet his wife who had just delivered a new baby.

Citing COVID-19 protocols, sources said, the First Lady Aisha Buhari and three of her children, Zahra, Halima and Yusuf, accompanied by some of her security aides led by the Aide-de-Camp, on Thursday night went to the residence of Sabiu located just outside the Presidential Villa to demand that he should self-isolate for 14 days, so as not to endanger the first family.



The encounter was said to have degenerated into a heated argument as Sabiu insisted he was not the only aide to travel to Lagos saying that the new Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, is in Lagos every weekend till he settles in Abuja, and wondered why the double standard requiring his self isolation for visiting his own wife who just delivered a new baby.

Sabiu, also known as ‘Tunde’ (believed to have been named after Late Gen. Tunde Idiagbon, Buhari’s deputy during his military regime in the 1980s), was however said to have returned home after the arguments.

As he got home, the first lady in company of her children raided the premises raining abuses, presidential sources who witnessed the incident said, leading to the escape of Sabiu after gunshots were fired by the First Lady’s ADC in an attempt to apprehend the President’s aide, who had to breach walls to run for his life and escape to the nearby residence of President Buhari’s cousin, Mamman Daura, where he spent the night.

THISDAY gathered that the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, after receiving security report on the incident on Friday where gunshots were fired in the precincts of the Presidential Villa, ordered the arrest of the Aide-de-camp to the first lady and all the security aides that accompanied her to Sabiu’s residence.

Their arrest, THISDAY learnt, was premised on the fact that firing of gunshots, no matter the provocation in the presidency, and around the president was a major ‘security breach’.

The incident was however brought into the open by the First Lady on Friday night when she called on IGP Adamu to release her aides from detention.

In tweets from her verified twitter handle @aishambuhari on Friday night, the first lady wrote: “That Covid-19 is real and still very much around in our nation is not in doubt. Consequently, I call on all relevant Government Agencies to enforce the Quarantine Act signed by Mr. President and ensure no one is found violating this law and the NCDC guidelines especially on interstate travel without the necessary exemptions for movement of essentials. Anyone who does that should at the very least be made to under go a 14 days mandatory isolation no matter who the person is, no one should be above the law and the Police command will do well to remember that.

“Finally, I call on the IGP to release my assigned Staff who are still in the custody of the Police in order to avoid putting their lives in danger or exposure to Covid-19 while in their custody.”

She however did not disclose the identities of her aides detained neither did she say when or why they were detained.

Sources in the State House told THISDAY that following the death of Mallam Abba Kyari, the President’s former chief of Staff who died as a result of COVID-19 complications, the first lady had been moving to expand her influence within the State House but believed that some of her husband’s relatives, including Sabiu, were blocking her from achieving that objective.

She however seized the opportunity provided by Sabiu’s visit to Lagos to attempt to clip his wings by demanding that he should self-isolate so as not to endanger the first family.

THISDAY gathered that Sabiu was not the first presidential aide that did not self-isolate after travelling out of Abuja.

Two of the President’s daughters, Zahra and Halima, were also said to have visited their in-laws when Halima’s husband’s uncle died recently and didn’t self-isolate when they returned to the Villa, sources further told THISDAY.

Below is the screenshot of her tweets.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/06/13/gunshots-in-presidency-as-aisha-buhari-moves-against-presidents-aide-adc-arrested/

Today proves that Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB intelligence is second to none. Nigerians are very very dumb. Serious war is brewing in that Villa. Nnamdi Kanu has been saying that Aisha has been trying to chase "Jubril" out of Villa since Abba Kyari died.

Nnamdi Kanu has been singing this like a song since February but nobody cared to listen.

It's time everyone should demand answers as to where the presidency is all through this quarrel, something is smelling very fishy there.

Aso rock has officially becomes a Fuji house of commotion?

What a presidency... APC... Bunch of incompetents. SMH

And Aisha needs to tell Nigerians what's really happening or what she wants cos it's glaring desperados are jostling for control of the presidency.

This woman get for hand...

First time ever the nation's seat of power will become an open theatre of unending desperate power tussle and jokes.Someone is in Aso Rock.Bubu has never been in charge.

osydennyz:
Aisha is beautiful

Afonja...focus on the issue like Biafrans.

Aisha has clearly conducted a palace coup .. It's clear Buhari is mentally incapacitated ..it's Time for this govt to be removed bey what ever means because Buhari the man elected doesn't know what's going on .. Thunder will fire anyone who tries to claim this is not the worst govt ever ..

How can a common recharge card seller even be challenging the first lady in any argument especially one he was clearly wrong

Only a fool will still think Buhari is alive,ask any old man about the kind of man buhari was. a military dictator,a former head of state,do you know how brutal you have to be to become a head of state then..a man who said Aisha belongs in his bedroom..the same aisha is now calling executive orders,the same Aisha fighting the personal assistant from coming into villa which should be buhari's job,and also asking IGP directly to release her aides,the same igp that answer to buhari her husband..most news is now issued by the presidency not the president...a lot of appointments were also canceled immediately abbari kyari died an ordinary chief of staff..while many Nigerians never knew the previous president's chief of staff...
More secrets will be revealed soon

And they said Patience Jonathan was a rude woman?

Presidential aide scaling fence of presidential palace with his agbada
I just imagined how funny that would look.

Cyberterror:


Presidential aide scaling fence of presidential palace with his agbada

I just imagined how funny that would look.

These greedy people have finished Nigeria

Wow

Everything will be revealed by themselves

Wonder why osibanjo don Dey grow fat for one side of the cheek...

Hope say no be Aisha daily slaps...

Is really getting outta hands

Just take a look at the fôols and buffoons running this country, who did Nigerians offend in this world ? It shall never be well with APC zombies because I know they’ll conveniently avoid this thread. Buhari and co travelers have turned even the sit of power to a joke

Asgard13:
Everything will be revealed by themselves

Wonder why osibanjo don Dey grow fat for one side of the cheek...

Hope say no be Aisha daily slaps...

Is really getting outta hands

Seems he suffered an attack

RZArecta:
Just take a look at the fôols and buffoons running this country, who did Nigerians offend in this world ? It shall never be well with APC zombies because I know they’ll conveniently avoid this thread. Buhari and co travelers have turned even the sit of power to a joke

Blame afonjas; they caused all this and still causing more.

God save your children

catfrog10:


Afonja...focus on the issue like Biafrans.

You want to force your propaganda on him?
Between where is your supreme coward?

RZArecta:
Just take a look at the fôols and buffoons running this country, who did Nigerians offend in this world ? It shall never be well with APC zombies because I know they’ll conveniently avoid this thread. Buhari and co travelers have turned even the sit of power to a joke

Let's go back home to cartalk

If a man has consistently shown that he cannot effectively control an estate even when he has all the powers at his disposal, how do you expect him to control an entire LG let alone a country as huge as Nigeria?

Someday, whatever they're covering will be blown open.

osydennyz:
Aisha Buhari is beautiful........I doubt if her and Buhari still meet in the other room .......On a more serious note, this woman is toxic...she's always getting into fights, from mamman daura's daughter to her husband aide's now...If she's so desperate for power she should contest in an election..... Nigerians voted Buhari and he ought to be in charge...no one else

Where there's a vacuum, others step in to act. The vacuum in Aso rock is wider than ever.

SarkinYarki:


Seems he suffered an attack

And there doesn't seem to be anyone to help him in there when they come for him.

Am happy about the shooting but am sad cos the bullet didn't hit the right target, i guest jubril is lucky once more.

SLAP44:


And there doesn't seem to be anyone to help him in there when they come for him.

I feel for the man but he is cornered ...He will be president by November if he can hold on

osydennyz:
Aisha Buhari is beautiful........I doubt if her and Buhari still meet in the other room .......On a more serious note, this woman is toxic...she's always getting into fights, from mamman daura's daughter to her husband aide's now...If she's so desperate for power she should contest in an election..... Nigerians voted Buhari and he ought to be in charge...no one else

Instead of you to ask where her husband's leadership is you are attacking a woman safeguarding her family from wolves who have Hijacked the presidency

SarkinYarki:


Seems he suffered an attack

Okay maybe...

But the thing look like a woman slap

That kind one wey stars the block

Abi

Apparently, I believe Aisha leaked the initial news to Sahara reports, while Sabui alias Tunde leaked this report to Thisday.

Well! There's always two sides to a story as we have seen here.

Still, my problem is why the president has refused to take charge of the situation like he has refused to take charge on many other crises going on in the country.

A leader proves his or her mantle in times of crises.

SarkinYarki:


I feel for the man but he is cornered ...He will be president by November if he can hold on

I believe you. He is holding on because this can blow on its own and he climbs in like Jonathan. If he makes a mistake, they may flush him out before he can climb in.