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There are indications that the sack of the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura, by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo had been months in the making, especially because of his suspected connivance with the Senate President and others in the National Assembly against the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

Top government sources revealed that before Osinbajo eventually announced his sacking on Tuesday, the President himself had made up his mind to fire the former DG few days before he embarked on a 10-day vacation to the UK.

Osinbajo had directed the termination of the appointment of the DSS boss following the invasion of the National Assembly complex by some DSS officers in what the Presidency described as an “unlawful, condemnable and completely unacceptable act, which was done without the knowledge of the Presidency is”.
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How the NASS ‘siege’ played out
Our correspondent gathered that Saraki’s loyalists may have staged the NASS invasion on Tuesday in connivance with some DSS officials, of which Daura was chief. This, the source said, was done to trump up sympathy for the Senate President following his defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and also rally public support for Saraki's presidential ambition.

Before the reported invasion of the National Assembly by DSS officers, who curiously wore hoods to mask their identities, our correspondent gathered that Saraki’s loyalists had arranged for cameras, TV crews and some reporters to gather at the National Assembly gates before the purported invasion so as to record the event. As the stage was set, DSS officers were then called in by Saraki’s camp to complete the stage managed invasion.

“If you watch closely, you would notice that Saraki’s personal photographer Tope Brown was among those recording the scene, how could he have been there if his principal did not know about the event? It is clear to the discerning eye that what happened today was a concocted script,” the source said.

The source added that what was more annoying is that "the sacked DG SSS did not tell the President or the Acting President; even the staff of the President who he would normally relate with were caught totally unawares".
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Daura and the Saraki link
Although it remains unclear if the disgraced DSS boss was actually working for Saraki as alleged in some quarters, investigations from our correspondent showed that on several occasions, Buhari had decided to remove Daura over allegations of colluding with Saraki to undermine his government.

One of the issues that gave Daura away was during the drama with the Senate over the confirmation of Ibrahim Magu as EFCC boss. Despite the presidency clearing the Acting EFCC boss, the Senate opposed Magu’s confirmation as substantive head of EFCC because of “security reports” from the DSS. The Senate based its decision on Paragraph 14 of the DSS letter on Magu, which stated: “In the light of the foregoing, Magu has failed the integrity test and will eventually constitute a liability to the anti-corruption stance of the current government”.

However, insiders said this was an indication that Saraki may have been behind the ploy to frustrate the move by the Presidency. The sacked DG went ahead to present that security report to the Senate after the President indicated to him that he was satisfied with Magu's candidature, and had no problems with his integrity record.

The NASS siege was the final nail on the Daura sack, as it showed his hand to the Presidency that he may have been working against them. Curiously, at the invasion of NASS by some DSS officers on Tuesday, only PDP senators were on hand and reportedly refused entry into the National Assembly by the DSS officers. Sources at the place said not one APC Senator was there.

Further investigation by our correspondent that the claim by DSS that they were acting on orders from above were false and the statement from the Presidency also made that well-known that the sacked DG acted on his own.

Once untouchable Daura
Fake news materials have been circulating online and on social media, for instance that when confronted by his sack, Daura allegedly dismissed the news, saying that he was only called for an interrogation at the villa. In the fake news materials being circulated on WhatApp, he was also said to have claimed that he acted based on the instructions given by the APC chairman through the Chief of staff to the President. But Aso Rock sources confirmed that no such claims were made and no such instructions were given. "There was even no meeting today between anyone in the villa with the sacked DG, including the Acting President, although such claims were being falsely circulated on WhatApp.

As of the time of going to press, the sacked DG was still being questioned by security agencies who had disarmed him and his convoy on arrival at the Villa. SaharaReporters reported that the sacked DG was arrested and grilled overnight by a combined team of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Police officers at Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) headquarters in Abuja.

whitebeard:
And APC dropped all national activity to chase saraki..!!!

The future generation will strip oshiomole and those people that made our country this despicable of everything they are grabbing and stealing...!!

We made them who they are, we gave them what they have, we would collect it back..!!

They can flex all they want now, but they can rest assured with the fact that their generations won't enjoy all these wealth they are grabbing..!!!

Shut up.APC led Government has tried in getting Military grade weapons for the Military.When the president insisted on paying the U.S.A government directly for the Tuccano's was it not your useless PDPD that kept shouting despite knowing the importance of the weapons to the Nigerian people.They were aware of the deadline but choose to play evil.All because they were not allowed to bring in middle men as they have been used too in time past .They wanted to jack up the money as usual just like when they spent $135mn on Mi 35 that cost just $35mn and still went ahead to buy a 4th hand.which eventually killed the pilots.Military procurement are planed over a period of time.they are usually long term.If Pdp did the needful when they were in power we will not be here.Thank God for Buhari

SolutionMee:
Gosh! I taught it's even Fayemi

We will definitely recover our stolen mandate

This shows the type of human you are.
Remember when you wish well it comes to you and evil will also come back to you. So i won't be surprised if you and your immediate family get to have a taste of what you just wished Fayemi. It seem you are a hired political thug who definitely have killed before

alanwanyiasaba:
lol
we don swap that Joe Igbokwe with FFK come balance yerobas some money on top because the guy is worthless as a used menses pad

who knows Joe Igbokwe in Nnewi.
his name starts and ends in Lagos his eternal slavery abode.

i guess Buhari the illiterate terrorist and Tinubu the bastard drug dealing vagabond are his heroes of demoncrazy

shameless bastard scumbag
i hate that man
Tufiakwa

So any one with a different opinion from you myopic childish brain must be a slave. This goes to show that you are a slave to your deluded brain

vanbonattel:
Do you know their's a possibility that Ojukwu fathered FFK? Ojukwu was quite friendly with Fani Kayode senior and even takes care of the mans home and wife when he travels

sure its possible. so you can now rightly say or agree that FFK (the Son) leftover na him the Papa ikemba hammer.remember say the same woman bianca abort for him pikin twice.hmmm wonders

meforyou1:
shut d hell up

is this all you can muster.learn to keep your mouth shut on things you know nothing about. They had their fun when they were young.it is just like your sister and her ex. imagine the guy coming out to say this you will feel bad.i bet you would never wish your sister to confirm knowing the guy,rather you will encourage her to lie in order not to lose her present guy. Abi i lie

meforyou1:
dont mind them o. Happened one time igbos descended on FFK for hating igbos. In his response, he said he was friendly with igbos. That he even friends with Bianca in UK when she single. Bianca later debunked the statement, saying she didnt know him in UK. And d matter died. FFK didnt issue a rebuttal. Yoruba muslims had been using that to taunt Bianca in social media whenever there's a story.
Hope u understand now.
We have even forgiven FFK since he supported Nnamdi Kanu and is supporting us to critize buhari, the most hated man in igboland.

Guy you want to re-write history.That FFK dated Bianca is a fact already established
That Bianca got pregnant for Him twice was also established by friends in the know.That they planed marrying was also a fact. Despite bianca denying not knowing FFk.Friends during their stay in UK proved she lied. It is understandable for her to deny.It is also wrong for FFK to say such stuff publicly.But your story can not change the fact that FFK Chop the apple while fresh before ikemba
read this hope you are not lazzy to understand FFK stand on the issue.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/144372-angry-fani-kayode-insists-on-intimate-relationship-with-bianca-ojukwu-ready-for-legal-action.html

how sure are you. is their no possibility of FFk in there

vanbonattel:
Radiant; beautiful family

Union between a strong war hero and a super beauty queen.

The Ikemba legacy lives on.

Nwoke ike.

IsaAbubakar:
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claptrap

.Olodo

Hello all.Ever since the gale of Defection of some set of people from the ruling APC,it also seems to me that the Herdsmen issue moved with them.Unlike before there is always one fresh news or the other every day.To me it goes to show that all was politically motivated to create an atmosphere of insecurity ,which they felt would help in their quest to regain power.
Please let's discuss

DonDemu:
An Enigma called Buhari.

It appears any self styled political analyst sponsored or otherwise can just write an untrue story about anything on PMB and then expects everyone to pull out his phone and start typing frantically to support him.

That era is gone.
That era has defected together with the herdsmen. Is surprising that even in the Benue trough the herdsmen have defected into oblivion. I was expecting someone to probably stir up some fulani herdsmen trouble with this defection counter defection but none. Because none ever existed.

You can trust PMB, he just kept silence as usual and even went on a vacation.

I stand with Buhari anytime and always.

You are right. Immediately they defected .The Herdsmen Defected too

izzou:


PDP gave the South east the Party chairman position so that the VP position will go to the West

You of all people should know that

Nope. The POsition for VP is Zone to the South East or South South

Zamoni15:
Hear me out

It is not a prophecy but a script.

The marketing strategy for Atiku, Tambuwal and Kwankwaso in the east will be restructuring.

After party primaries, PDP will likely pick their VP candidate from East.

The song of restructuring will diminish the PDP support in the north.

The picking of VP in the east will diminish PDP support in the west.

Average Yoruba man will support Prof Osinbajo against whoever that PDP pick in the east (Facebook interest will be dumped for regional interest )

Average core Muslim will run back to Baba while viewing PDP candidate as IPOB supporter (you will understand this theory more when you study why lagosians abandoned Agbaje when he started elevating Igbo interest in Lagos to get their support against the feeling of average omoluabi )

South east will be polarised by 4 is better than 8 in view of 2023.

All these take it back comrades will align with Osinbajo campaign structure.

Wailers will be left stranded again.

This is not a movie, Nigeria democratic space is not difficult to decode. IPOB turned our friends to foes and healing can never be spontaneous.

In the last minute, what you will be hearing is, Buhari/Osinbajo is better than this Wike/Fayose gang�������. Average noise from the south west is for negotiation of more infrastructure, Yorubas are smart at that. Saraki allegation that Lagos is favoured by Buhari is already viewed negatively by his sympathisers in SW��

An average Igbo man shouting Atiku do not have voters card. They will be busy with Arsenal Chelsea match on election day. Once the result is announced, they will justify the outcome by telling you that they know the result before the election. ����. That Buhari is not weak like Jonathan �����. They will spend 30 minutes to curse Jonathan for election he didn't contest and continue with their Gulder, isiewu and Heineken.

Next morning, they will tell you that they are happy that Buhari won so that there will be peace as they reopen their chops. ���. While reading complete sports, they will start a new discussion immediately, 2023 is our turn, who will succeed Buhari? ����.

Should I continue?

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Let hear your own opinion

You are Bastardly Correct. 7 Gbosa for you.
But you forgot to add .The fake Prophets will start trying to twist the so called prophecy they gave about PMB losing on after seeing the apparent Victory to say the christian body did not pray harder. when we all know that they are lies concocted to further divide us as a people.

Firmjudge:
Normal people paying rapt attention.

To their political career.

WE know that look when you start aksing yourself ,Guy i better port ohh

CSTR1005:
Saraki lambasted his own father. He is now the Senate president.

Amaechi fought wike his benefactor. Now he is a minister.

Power is transient. it does not reside permanently with one person.
You have it today, doesn't mean you will tomorrow.

Akpabio had power before, udom now has it .

Agreed but Power and Structure are two different things.Ask Tambuwal how he is feeling after yesterday's stunt pulled by wamako

me69:
GEJ and Yar adua projects

See you self. when you don't go out to look for facts. Keep deceiving yourself. This IS PMB 100%.Come March will offer you free ticket on the New Metro rail.Lagos to Ibadan

IsaAbubakar:
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shatap which masses
you mean 30k bmc crew
Nonsense
Buhari is going next year
kiss the truth

The Gospel according to you bah.Keep dreaming .Meanwhile i dey dance Makosa

[quote author=Firefire post=70002901][/quote]That your Fire .Na spit i go take quench am. your fire wey no fit cook 1 cup of rice

CSTR1005:
Which oil giant?

The current governor of akwaibom state just lambasted akpabio.

so which oil giant did you claim?

You mean he lambasted the Man he used to bend down to greet.The Man who picked him as a nonentity and made him someone.IF your are Akpabio how would you feel na.
Wentin Udom no fit see while standing. Akpabio go see pass am. lets they watch

gurnam:
The slave is the one begging that they should give him his own port.
The is the one Ambode is pleading for but too timid to see
The slave is the one that upon all his 16 years slaving for PDP, there is nothing to show
The slave is the one that the President of the country can easily labeled 5% and nothing happened
The slave is one that is looking up to the North in kwasnkwsso, atiku, Saraki and tambuwal to take them out of their current political wilderness
The slave will always remain a slave because they are too arrogant to even know they are slaves

Knowing the truth and embracing it can set a people free. you have said it all no point re-echoing it

tiredoflife:
Oga complete am first
No be badagry here
Show us pictures abi $1billion no get picture evidence to back am up
Dull lairs

I know your type .Since you are tired of life. No point even if i carry your Onitsha Port picture Call am Badagry wentin your mumu brian know.Simply you lack the Capacity to comprehend stuffs.

IsaAbubakar:
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trash trash trash

when the elites are against you but the masses are Behind you
you got a fighting chance
but when both the elites and the masses are against you
tell me your fighting chance?
that's the case of buhari the criminal terrorist

kiss the truth

cc
ngeneukwenu
madridguy
seunmsg
passingshot
modath

The Masses are definitely Behind PMB.That i can assure. or are u telling they are behind Obj or Atiku

nickxtra:
As politics in the country heat in the run up to the general elections in 2019, particular as regards the presidential polls, there are many Nigerians, political class and non political class that are so disenchanted with the current situation of things in the country and such individuals and organisations are prepared and ready to deploy every resources within thier reach to outst the current President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammad Bihari.

Some of these persons and groups have already started open and and overt moves to ensure that the President, whose party, the ruling APC is equally preparing for political war, is voted out of power come February, 2019.

Here are some of these persons and groups. You may add your own:

1. The People's Democratic Party(PDP)
2. Some group or alliance of political
parties.
3. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former
President and a staunch critic of the
President.
4. All the presidential hopefuls within the
Platform of other political parties,
including former Vice president, Atiku
Abubakar; current Senate President,
Senator Saraki; Aminu Tambuwal, etc
5. The Christian Association of Nigeria,
whose members are aggrieved with
the President's inability or non challant
response to the killings going on in the
country perpetraded by the President's
kind men, popular known as the Fulani
herdsmen.
6. The North central states of Benue,
Plateau and some parts of Kaduna
(Southern Kaduna), parts of Taraba
and Adamawa.
7. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, a billionaire
and former Defence Minister, who of
recent has condemned the Military and
Presidency in the manner they have
handled the killings going on all over
the country. He even called on his kins
men to defend themselves.
8. Ibrahim Babangida, former President
who has also written an open letter of
"No confidence" on the President.
9. Some parts of South East and South
South states.
10.The masses of the country who are frustrated and tired of the workings of the present government.
11.Those standing trial for corruption
and related issues, such as former
NSA, Dasuki and his teeming
supporters and sympathizers,
Elzazaki and members of his Shia
movements.
12. Those that defected from the ruling
APC to other parties would likely put
in more efforts and money to avoid
being put to shame.
13. A section of the mass media
14. The political class that is not
benefitting from the present political
arrangment.
15. A section of the international community.


MY VERDICT:

If these and other unseen forces team up and deploy all resources within thier reach, including financial, intellectual, mobilization, etc, etc against the President, who though still command a lot of followership across country and has huge war chest in terms of finance, to execute the presidential campaign and elections, I fear the worst for the political fortune of the President in the 2019 presidential elections.

Guy forget. OBj whose means of making free money from GOvt was blocked just like the rest of Them.or Danjuma who knows the oil licence he has will not be renewed. International community that is solidly behind Bubu with all the Foreign reserve he has stashed in their banks on behalf of Nigeria.or the group of Failed PDP Presidential hopefuls.

tiredoflife:
Oga complete am first
No be badagry here
Show us pictures abi $1billion no get picture evidence to back am up
Dull lairs

See unintelligent Mumu like your self .Calling Lekki Badagry.Just like the way you come online after collecting your monthly PDP 30k to spew rubish.Do you even know badagry at all not to talk of lekki.

tiredoflife:
Ambode that was complaining a few days back
I guess he was me
He is Igbo
Or he is ipob

Grow some sense
Do the deep sea port na
We hold una
Badagary own wey una make mouth about since how many years now
How far
Ship don dey dock there
So so so mouth
U think the dry port up north is just for play
Slowly they are moving things away from Lagos
Lagos soon go only dey clear tooth pick

in less than 3yrs from now it will be completed. close to $1bn was exported through the lftz.When its completed The very large set of ships in the world would dock there. Mind plans are on the way in constructing a link rail to move out goods .The road construction along that axis in motion.
Point of correction The Dry port is needed.How would a dry port work without a sea port.You see your myopic reasoning
Ambode was complaining basically because of the trailer issues.Many of the places meant for parking are either under lock or taken over for different purpose. imagine Ijora having a space for over 4000+ trailers being used and converted to other purposes

tiredoflife:
Nigeria is not a country but an evil forest
A few years back we all spoke about the seaports in the Niger delta and the old eastern region
We asked why is everything passing through Lagos
Oil oh na Lagos
Cement oh na Lagos
Container oh na Lagos
And of course what will the people of the south west tell you.
Tell your governors
Ask them what are they doing with your allocations
If e pain u
Leave Lagos
Go to your fillage the Facebook agberos screamed.

After the civil war there was a blanket policy to frustrate the then Midwest and old eastern region based on their role played in the war.
Thats why many people began to say I am not Igbo
If u had ten million in ur account with one big pen from awolowo ur account will read twenty pounds
We had people in the Niger delta who were igbos before begin to deny their igboness
Many removed some letters from their names
Many renamed their villages
Some even tried so hard to undo their history so as to escape the pen of the evil man awolowo

Today we have many I am not Igbo tribe running like headless chickens in the old eastern regions and the Niger delta
Its was OK
As the slaves began to deny their fathers so they can at least be given bread crumbs
The sea was blocked
Nothing goes in
Till date shipping companies charge war zone charge if you don't want ur container in Lagos and want it moved further east of Lagos

But what changed
Why the sudden shout from ambode
When this blanket policy was made
Nigeria was about twenty to fifty million people
Today we are two hundred million
Lagos can't take it
Ambode knows the problem
Instead of the federal govt to listen to him
They came with a PPP and awarded a contract to DANGOTE
Build the road to toll gate
Cosmetic surgery solution
We are watching
Ambode no ask us again to ask our governors
No one is saying what are your reps doing in the national assembly
What is ur senator doing
Na only to chop money dem sabi
Now ambode directed it to the real culprit
The Fulani lead federal system of Nigeria
Person wey carry pikin toy lift am up make pikin no fit reach am to play
When hand tire am
Him go drop am
One Nigeria indeed
The evil forest

Keep complaining .When Lagos is Done with its largest Deep Sea Port then you will know its too late.All you People do is talk no action.When its done your chance at catch up will be long gone

FarahAideed:
Akpabio is nothing but a self centred greedy man .

All because he choosed to move to APC.Ok so what is Saraki Your Mentor.I guess a mass Murderer

[quote author=Firefire post=70002267][/quote]Rat Poison .Laughing in chin qui han.
I have officially sent your Name to Person of Interest list. We need to Monitor your Dysfunctional Medulla Oblongata

Firefire:
[s][/s]

Your name is on my Mufu database

[quote author=osazeeblue01 post=70001690][/quote]See your self trying to make sense out of your own stupidity

Firefire:
Well done to the undertaker.


No amount of tactics can be used to market a bad and failing product.

What rubbish are you saying.

I can tell you categorically that Buhari has done most of what he said he will Do. if We decided to go by the poster you placed.

Am ready to give you info which your lazy Brain refused seeking

Ihateyoumod:
They have bursted ur lie....the man wants all of the southeast road to be 100% clean in just 3 years. Which is not possible. But he forgets tht we had a party who ruled us for 16years and yet even 0% they didn't do. If PDP had fixed those roads for the 16 years they ruled, would we be talking bout this now

dont mind them 490bn Dollars Compare to just 94bn which buhari earned thus far.They Made $490bn in 5yrs what did they do.with. Buhari $94Bn despite inflation recession. he his still working
Shame on you PLB's Pained Looters Beneficiaries