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•How Daura mounted pressure on Assembly clerk, Omolori

•Why DSS men jubilated over Daura’s sack

By Taiwo Adisa -



More facts have emerged on the role played by the sacked Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS), Mr Lawal Daura, on the botched attempt to forcefully effect leadership change in the National Assembly and how the plan was hatched.

Sunday Tribune learnt that there were more to the report being bandied around, especially over the series of denial that trailed the DSS operation, than meets the eye.

Though the plan was said to have been hatched and executed by Mr Daura, it was not without the input and support of some powerful interests in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Sunday Tribune leant that after the failure of the rumoured initial attempt to get the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki impeached on July 24, which led to the defection of some senators, individuals who felt that Saraki’s continued leadership of the Senate was an affront on the APC leadership and government had impressed it on the DSS boss that the embattled Senate president must be pushed out of office.

“The event of Tuesday did not begin that day,” a source told Sunday Tribune. “It was all part of the previous plan to force the Senate president and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, out of office, since it is now certain that they won’t resign on their own.”

It was learnt that Daura had mounted pressure on the Clerk to the National Assembly (CNA), Alhaji Mohammed Sani Omolori, asking him to make himself available for the swearing in of a new leadership of the National Assembly on August 7.

A source close to Omolori however, said that the Clerk to the National Assembly never met Daura.


How the plan was leaked

Sunday Tribune checks further revealed that the plan of the DSS boss would have succeeded but for the Freudian slip made by Senator Ahmed Lawan after the meeting with President MuhammaduBuhari which, it was learnt, alerted some members of the opposition party.

Senator Lawan had in a televised interview stated that they had asked all their members to be present at the National Assembly on Tuesday. That statement, a source in the opposition, told Sunday Tribune, was the danger signal that alerted some of them.

“The meeting that was called for Tuesday was not for all members but NASS leadership. So when Senator Lawan made that statement, we immediately knew something big was going to happen,” the source stated.

“Though we alerted some of our members it was providence that saved the day. A member of the Senate president media team had arrived at the complex before the DSS took over. The reports and videos of the event as it unfolded then that were sent were our saving grace.

“They were what alerted other members who quickly massed at the entrance. Of course, there was also the heroic display of Honourable [Boma] Goodhead which forced the hands of the operatives.

Contrary to the lies and rumours being spread, none had an idea of what was going to happen. The Senate president was just lucky. He would have been impeached,” the source explained.


Presidency caught Unawares

Findings suggest that the Acting President, Professor YemiOsinbajo, was indeed not carried along. But the same cannot be said of some APC leadership.

It was gathered that a meeting of the APC members presided over by their chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, had taken place during the night before the attack at Asokoro area. The meeting, it was said, was deadlocked over Saraki and Ekweremadu’s successors.

It was gathered that whereas the choice of the party for the Senate Presidency remains Senator Ahmed Lawan, two other senators are also eyeing the seat.

It was learnt that Senator George Akume and AbdulahiAdamu have been campaigning for the post of Senate President among core members of the APC and that each of Lawan, Adamu and Akume would have put himself forward if the coup had succeeded.

It was also learnt that some forces in the APC were also rooting for Senator Godswill Akpabio who had just resigned as Minoroty Leader as a choice for Deputy Senate President.

While some members were said to have favoured the North-East clinching it because of Lawan, others opposed had cited Speaker Yakubu Dogara who is still in the APC being from that zone and would rather prefer it to remain in the North-Central. There was also said to be a disagreement over who to take over the seat of Deputy Senate President between Senator Hope Uzodinma, Andy Ubah.

Further insight into the plan revealed that the embattled ex-DSS boss was said to have deemed informing Professor Osinbajo or getting presidential clearance as an obstacle. He was said to have told close associates that the vice-president is a lawyer and that he would only be asking for due process to be followed.



Saraki will be impeached — Oshiomhole

“He said the VP would be quoting laws and due process and that would not help matters. That would keep Saraki and co in power. He believes that once Saraki and others are impeached, it is over. Even if they head to the court, it would take time before anything could come out the case.

“Once he got the buy in of some powerful stakeholders he moved in. The result is what we are seeing today,” the source said.



Why DSS staff jubilated over sack of Daura

Sources close to the security forces have confirmed the reasons why staff of the DSS jubilated when they heard of the sack of the erstwhile Director-General, Lawal Daura.

It was gathered that he assumed extraordinary powers immediately he assumed office and that he ensured that all Directors at the National Headquarters of the service are made to queue up to pay homage to him daily.

A source said: “To add salt to injury, you cannot even go and ease yourself because, once he sighted you in the CCTV that you have left, you are in soup.” Before Daura, Directors at the Headquarters of the service are allocated a Prado SUV, a Peugeot 508 as official cars and one Toyota Hilux as utility car.

It was also gathered that Daura reduced the monthly subvention of the Directors by as much as 70 per cent under the pretext that there is no money.

The former DSS was also said to have stopped the welfare all DSS staff even though it was said that he approved US dollars to sponsor some trips abroad.

Many of the operatives were allegedly denied their allowances usually paid for operational deployments a source said the In 2017, the former DG DSS allegedly sponsored 32 persons, including some of his wives and grandchildren to the USA with some of them getting as much as $10,000 for adults and others got $5,000 as PTA.

“Training programmes and other official benefits were stopped. Even overseas training which are to be sponsored by the foreign institutions suffered because of lack of interest to treat files. Most at times, the event must have been concluded months after, before he would see the file and he was always proud to write ‘belated, file away,” a source stated.

But sources said that despite the claim of paucity of funds, the man alleged said to have placed his children and grandchildren and their spouses on monthly allowances of about N200,000 monthly.

The source further said: “The wives and grown up children were collecting petrol voucher for 100 litres per week, whereas operational vehicles are not properly fuelled, except those on standby for special operations like the operation at the National Assembly.

Officials of the DSS were told that Dangote Group donated vehicles just like the company did to the Police but that the embattled ex-DG converted the vehicles to personal use.

“Each wife goes around in convoy with details. In fact, the third wife who is based in Kano is nursing the ambition to contest for house of Reps in Kano.”

He was also said to have diverted trailer loads of rice donated by Dangote to Kano so that the said wife used as political gift to would be constituents.

Further details indicated that even Daura’sneighbours in Gwarimpa, Abuja and Katsina also did not enjoy him as some of them were said to have jubilated over his removal because of his oppressive conducts a source in the know said: “When a transformer serving his house in Daura got burnt, the neighborhood was all looking for his help for replacement.

Daura however bought a smaller transformer that will serve only his house and connected same without minding what became the fate of his neighbours.

His neighbours in Gwarimpa lamented that since he became DGSS it has remained difficult to see him for any help.

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Nonsense. Kirikiri or Kuje maximum loading

Useless APC! The idiot they called mr intergrity planned this coup against our democracy and stupidly ran away to London. APC are against democracy, they are thief's,they kill at will . Prices have doubled. PDP n APC are thief's,but we have to choose a lesser evil from the both.

"It was learnt that Daura had mounted pressure on the Clerk to the National Assembly (CNA), Alhaji Mohammed Sani Omolori, asking him to make himself available for the swearing in of a new leadership of the National Assembly on August 7."


"It was gathered that a meeting of the APC members presided over by their chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, had taken place during the night before the attack at Asokoro area. The meeting, it was said, was deadlocked over Saraki and Ekweremadu’s successors.

Though the plan was said to have been hatched and executed by Mr Daura, it was not without the input and support of some powerful interests in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Sunday Tribune leant that after the failure of the rumoured initial attempt to get the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki impeached on July 24, which led to the defection of some senators, individuals who felt that Saraki’s continued leadership of the Senate was an affront on the APC leadership and government had impressed it on the DSS boss that the embattled Senate president must be pushed out of office.

And this is the same Lawal Daura APC stupidly alleged is working for Saraki APC have implicated itself.

madridguy:

Stupid Buhari planned the coup and ran away. Is he not ashamed of himself? He wanted to rape us off of our democracy,just like he did in 1980s. Buhari is a wasteman!

Lol. Story story! Daura conspired with Saraki and Ekweremadu to play that drama we watched that day! How's that hard to understand by discerning mind? This is most likely a writeup to whitewash Saraki and present him as unawares of what he scripted. It'll not fly. The duo have always been friends - friendship in crime.

MODIFIED: Chai! Look at the bunch of ignorant folks quoting me. Saraki and Lawal have always been best of friends; at least they came to know each other during the presidential campaign when Lawal was one of the heads of the security team of Buhari's campaign. Since 2015, Sahara Reporters have been reporting how Lawal has been covering for Bukola. With facts, not conjectures.

More facts have emerged on the role played by the sacked Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS), Mr Lawal Daura, on the botched attempt to forcefully effect leadership change in the National Assembly and how the plan was hatched.

Sunday Tribune learnt that there were more to the report being bandied around, especially over the series of denial that trailed the DSS operation, than meets the eye.
Though the plan was said to have been hatched and executed by Mr Daura, it was not without the input and support of some powerful interests in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

How the plan was leaked; Sunday Tribune checks further revealed that the plan of the DSS boss would have succeeded but for the Freudian slip made by Senator Ahmed Lawan after the meeting with President MuhammaduBuhari which, it was learnt, alerted some members of the opposition party.

Senator Lawan had in a televised interview stated that they had asked all their members to be present at the National Assembly on Tuesday. That statement, a source in the opposition, told Sunday Tribune, was the danger signal that alerted some of them.

“The meeting that was called for Tuesday was not for all members but NASS leadership. So when Senator Lawan made that statement, we immediately knew something big was going to happen,” the source stated.

Presidency caught Unawares
Findings suggest that the Acting President, Professor YemiOsinbajo, was indeed not carried along. But the same cannot be said of some APC leadership.

It was gathered that a meeting of the APC members presided over by their chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, had taken place during the night before the attack at Asokoro area. The meeting, it was said, was deadlocked over Saraki and Ekweremadu’s successors.

It was gathered that whereas the choice of the party for the Senate Presidency remains Senator Ahmed Lawan, two other senators are also eyeing the seat.

It was learnt that Senator George Akume and AbdulahiAdamu have been campaigning for the post of Senate President among core members of the APC and that each of Lawan, Adamu and Akume would have put himself forward if the coup had succeeded.

While some members were said to have favoured the North-East clinching it because of Lawan, others opposed had cited Speaker Yakubu Dogara who is still in the APC being from that zone and would rather prefer it to remain in the North-Central. There was also said to be a disagreement over who to take over the seat of Deputy Senate President between Senator Hope Uzodinma, Andy Ubah.

Further insight into the plan revealed that the embattled ex-DSS boss was said to have deemed informing Professor Osinbajo or getting presidential clearance as an obstacle. He was said to have told close associates that the vice-president is a lawyer and that he would only be asking for due process to be followed.

“He said the VP would be quoting laws and due process and that would not help matters. That would keep Saraki and co in power. He believes that once Saraki and others are impeached, it is over.
Even if they head to the court, it would take time before anything could come out the case.“Once he got the buy in of some powerful stakeholders he moved in. The result is what we are seeing today,” the source said.

No matter how long they deny this shameful NASS DSS siege karma will keep exposing APC.Oshiomole you're a disgrace.

Thought they were peddling their usual lies and propaganda that Daura was working with Saraki against the president?
There is a very apt saying by one of the great philosophers: "truth travels slowly,but it would definitely reach everyone in time".
APC and the Buhari government cannot win elections on lies and propaganda and feel that they will continue governing on same perpetual lies and propaganda.
By the time the lies become overwhelming and too childish,even they too will have to admit everything has been based on lies.

hmm...

while it is good that daura's looting & maladministration are been exposed, shouldn't the government be more focused in trying the man for treason?


it seems the invasion of the NAss has been relegated to the back seat (same way omo-agege's bringing of thugs) & the issues of corruption is been put forward...


even at that, how many of his accounts have been frozen like is often done to the opposition?


how many of his houses have been marked by the efcc?



why is he not in detention just as is done to others?


if the fg already had this much info on his corrupt activities, why did they wait on till now to expose him?

This report sounds very credible.

Nigerian politicians are evil. They were even already sharing the positions before they got to impeachment?!!

If Saraki is that powerful to the extent of making one of the security chiefs to work for him at the expense of a seating president who is supposedly his nephew then dullard Buhari deserves nothing short an impeachment.

Daviddson:
Lol. Story story! Daura conspired with Saraki and Ekweremadu to play that drama we watched that day! How's that hard to understand by discerning mind? This is most likely a writeup to whitewash Saraki and present him as unawares of what he scripted. It'll not fly. The duo have always been friends - friendship in crime.

You see..Until he was removed, we didn't hear the Cesspit of corruption happening under him. Let all PMB officials depart and we will be given full blown details of massive corruption on going.

Daviddson:
Lol. Story story! Daura conspired with Saraki and Ekweremadu to play that drama we watched that day! How's that hard to understand by discerning mind? This is most likely a writeup to whitewash Saraki and present him as unawares of what he scripted. It'll not fly. The duo have always been friends - friendship in crime.

There is a video going round in WhatsApp, that video showed how Saraki and Daura were celebrating the Tuesday's drama, some minutes after the show.

following.

This report is very credible....

This is exactly what happened...and it answered all th3 questions some zombies raised....!

This is the truth. Lalasticlala.

7lives:
There is a video going round in WhatsApp, that video showed how Saraki and Daura were celebrating the Tuesday's drama, some minutes after the show.

A video you manufactured from your buttocks abi? SMH

Daura was doing a whole lot of dirty jobs for this useless APC led federal government. They just sacked him to pretend as if he acted alone. We knew it from the start.

APC is a devilish party

Story of pdp, by pdp for wailers.

They said APC wanted to carry out a coup, meanwhile APC senators were sleeping soundly at home. While pdp senators with their bottles of ogogoro and their thugs together with DSS people were at the national assembly.
The same people said APC senators were meeting at Sheraton, later Oshiomole's house. Only reported by pdp media.
Same them said they wanted to make Akpabio senate president. Akpabio was not even an APC member as at that day. He was to officially decamp the next day.
A good number of APC senators were not even in Abuja on that day.

Good thing is that the Buhari led administration sacked the DSS guy, and took the glory.
Keep hating on Oshiomole while he keeps winning everything winnable.

APC's greatest problem is the fact that Buhari and Osinbajo are not politicians. Both are not playing the dirty games some people within the APC are playing.

And trust me, if not for Buhari APC will be ousted in 2019. It was obvious the presidency was not carried along in their DSS embarrassing nonsense because they know he is very unlikely to approve.

Buhari's image and by and large Osinbajo's has been tarnished mainly because of the polithiefians that surround them and nothing more. Buhari in my opinion means well but for the desperate polithifians.

Nonsense, Buhari is part of the plan.Vote him out before he single handle destroy our democracy.

keep deceiving yourselves.... fool at 40?...

Junk journalism! How can he singlehandedly install a new leadership without the foreknowledge of the VP?

kiss the truth!

The plan to impeach Saraki is known by Buhari himself

lies!!

Fake news sponsored by PDP. If this useless antagonist party who tagged itself opposition party chooses not to desist from peddling and sponsoring fake news across the nation just to pull down pmb’s administration, then their failure will be eternity.

According to BMC Saraki wanted to remove himself.

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sureheaven:
Fake news sponsored by PDP. If this useless antagonist party who tagged itself opposition party chooses not to desist from peddling and sponsoring fake news across the nation just to pull down pmb’s administration, then their failure will be eternity.

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You did your own investigation and found this report fake?

No way! Saraki scripted the drama with Daura - source: BMC