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President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the tenure of Ahmed Rufai, current director-general of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), despite internal protests against his reappointment, sources told Peoples Gazette.

Officials said the extension which was granted last month by Mr Buhari, is expected to take effect from January 10, the same day that Mr Rufai was first appointed the NIA boss in 2018.

Mr Rufai replaced Ayo Oke, who was suspended by the president in April 2017 and dismissed on October 30 the same year over fraud allegations.

Top NIA brass and critics of the Buhari regime had queried the appointment of Mr Rufai in 2018. They argued over his competence, nationality, and the motive behind the appointment of the Katsina State-born director-general.

Of the criticisms against Mr Rufai’s appointment was how he failed his promotion examinations into directorship rank on three different occasions before being compulsorily retired.

Amid claims that the president was extending Mr Rufai’s tenure, directors in the agency reiterated in a letter to Mr Buhari that the director-general was unqualified for the position.

“YE (Your Excellency), the current DG, Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, left the service in 2012, which was six (6) years before you appointed him as the DG. He was compulsorily retired after failing his promotion examinations, from Deputy Director to Director, three(3) times consecutively,” the NIA directors explained. “This appointment brought a kind of a very odd and awkward relationship between the DG and directors.”

The spy chiefs had also asked the president to respect seniority and hierarchy in appointing into key positions, while lamenting how their dreams of career progression were shattered by Mr Buhari’s tribalism and religious bias in appointing staff members into key positions in the NIA.

“But we here at the NIA, are seeing these hopes dashed every day due to high-handedness, maladministration, repressive governance, segregation, and extreme impunity. It looks like in the Dolphin House, there is no regulatory body like other MDAs. Apparently, it is winner takes all here,” the memo partly read.

After it was learnt that the president extended Mr Rufai’s tenure, top spy chiefs told The Gazette that the development may further fuel internal disagreements within the agency.

Although the reason for the tenure extension was not immediately clear, the officials had accused Mr Buhari of tribalism in favouring Mr Rufai.

However, The Gazette could not immediately reach Mr Rufai for comments on the development, while Mr Buhari’s spokesperson, Femi Adesina, declined request to comment on why the Director-General’s tenure was renewed despite fierce opposition from his colleagues.

Peoples Gazette

what do we expect
anything less
we are all human
prone to error

You never see anything yet! No be NIA na CIA. BUNCH OF JOKERS

Our entire public service is chock full with his type.
How can you get quality service from mediocrity?
But who will support for his family member to be kicked out of govt employment?
Remember teachers being tested in Edo and kaduna?
That's why #OurMumuNevaDo

Why do you southerners always sad seeing a Muslim northerner appointed in any position?
The same man the masked Directors said is incompetent has piloted the affairs of the agency smoothly without issues for 4 years, and now because you want to scuttle his reappointment as DG, you are now coming up with cooked and fabricated misadventures. Bad belle well done!
Just recently, a husband and wife from the same state were promoted to the position of AIG of police, non of you cried tribalism because they are from south;
Just last Wednesday here, two siblings from Bayelsa were promoted to the ranks of major general in the army (which contradicts federal character) and you never raise any eyebrow.
If the above incidents affected northern muslims, you E-rats would have been crying islamization!
Well done sadists!

I don't see anything wrong with it, sometimes we all need a 2nd chance in life.

I am not surprised. Buhari is no better (he's a failure too) yet some, if possible, will give him an opportunity to run a third term so what do you expect from him?

Walahi, intelligence is not within the reach of Buhari and the DG. Same applies to most people in governance.

Buhari himself didn't pass any exam where certificates with grades was issued, he attended courses in military academies which issued him with certificate of attendance without grading based on bilateral relations with Nigeria with no pre-qualification exams required, that's why none of them have any of his certificates or results in their files and he got promoted to General based on quota system.

He lied about having WAEC when we all knew that during his time they were drafted into the Army by Sardauna before they finished secondary school.

How can you defeat insurgency and banditry when an academically unintelligent person is in charge of your national intelligence agency?

You guys are joking in this country if you think accepting mediocrity because of nepotism can make us a great nation.
Lastly, this story may not go beyond page 3
because a particular region was not mentioned in it

This man has succeeded in destroying the fabrics of a sane and just society. A far cry from what the people clamoured for; worse than his predecessor. Do we still wonder why there's so much impunity in this government? As the saying goes, when the head is rotten, the whole body is gone. I hope the country can recover from all the sh!t going on in this regime.

E SHOCK U?

CHAI 70YRS OLD MAN!

NO BE JUJU BE DAT!

Maybe the zombie is from lalastica town, pls I'm jobless, 45yrs male

What do you expect? They are birds of same feather.

Buhari is the worst thing that happened to Nigeria.

Hmmm

Buhari already starting the New Year badly

Has Buhari himself passed any exam before? Birds of feather ..................

Ain't surprised! Failure attracts it's likes

Maybe he's from lalastica hometown, pls nairalander I'm jobless, 45 yes male 08124316553

Lol

Some birds with similar feather really share common interests.

E be many things

Tyrant buhari doesn't care about the opinion of anyone. Man is deaf, and senile. Under what atmosphere will the staff of NiA operate with this his action.

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Peoples Gazette

That man lives in a reverse sphere of life

It's normal

Failure runs in the family genes

Failure always love failures

Quota system government. Make una chop the money anyhow

God will visit u people and your families. Evil people

Another year of failure in buhari administration...

Today is 2021, tomorrow is 2022, next tomorrow will be 2023, yea?
Finally buhari is stepping down �