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Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by RZArecta2(m): 2:16am On Nov 06, 2019
A day after signing Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contract Amendment Bill into law in London, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sack at least 35 out of over 80 aides in the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, DAILY NIGERIAN can reliably report.

The president is currently in London, United Kingdom for a two-week “private visit” and is expected back in Abuja on November 17.

DAILY NIGERIAN gathered that the affected aides, who were issued appointment letters in August included some Senior Special Assistants, Special Assistants, Personal Assistants and Technical Assistants.

Credible sources who preferred anonymity said the aides may be formally issued their sack letters on Wednesday.

Preparatory to their eventual dismissal, DAILY NIGERIAN learnt the aides were posted out to some line ministries relevant to their designation last month. The move was allegedly to deny them access to the Villa and reduce the influence of the vice president.

“Although more than half of the aides are under the payroll of donor agencies, the cabal eased them out in order to whittle down the influence of the vice president,” said a source familiar with the development.

“None of them were queried or interdicted for any wrongdoing. It is not about cutting cost, because no aide was sacked in the president’s office nor office of the First Lady, where six more aides appointed less than one month ago. They were just sacked to reduce the VP’s influence.”

Both spokesmen for the president and vice president, Garba Shehu and Laolu Akande respectively, did not respond to a text message seeking their reaction to the development.

Osinbajo’s travails

There seems to be a frosty relationship between the president and his deputy since the beginning of their second term in office, with the president transferring some agencies under the Mr Osinbajo’s control to either his office or some ministries.

Insiders said the president’s powerful handlers, otherwise known as cabal, were unhappy with some critical decisions taken by the vice president in the president’s absence.

Feelers believe that top among Mr Osinbajo’s “crimes” was the sack of Lawal Daura, erstwhile director-general of the State Security Service, SSS, when Mr Osinbajo was acting president in August last year.

Another decision that drew the ire of the cabal was transmitting a letter to the Senate in February 2017, seeking confirmation of then acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Walter Samuel Onnoghen.

But the president first wielded the big stick by taking away the Special Intervention Programmes, SIPs, from the vice president’s office to the newly created Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development.

The SIPs include the famous TraderMoni, the Home-grown School Feeding Programme, Government Economic Empowerment Programme, N-Power, among others.



On September 16, Mr Buhari replaced Osinbajo-led Economic Management Team with Economic Advisory Council that will directly report to his (president’s) office.

According a report by PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday, even the controversial RUGA project has also been taken from Mr Osinbajo’s control after the recommendation of the president’s powerful Chief of Staff Abba Kyari.

Taking a cue from Olusegun Obasanjo?

Shortly after President Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn-in for a second term in May 2003, his relationship with his deputy, Atiku Abubakar, became sour over latter’s alleged plan to contest against him at the party’s primaries.

At the peak of estrangement, the former president fired Mr Atiku’s key aides in order to allegedly settle the political scores.

Those fired by Mr Obasanjo in July 2006 included Adeolu Akande, Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, Chris Mammah, Shina Ayati, Sam Oyovbaire, Lawal Jafaru Isa and Garba Shehu.

https://dailynigerian.com/exclusive-buhari-fires-35-aides-in-osinbajos-office/

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by NigeriaIsDoomed: 2:21am On Nov 06, 2019
The fake pastor aka yahoo yahoo chief never see anything yet.
Zoo country!

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by SarkinYarki: 2:21am On Nov 06, 2019
Sarrki will still come here and defend this

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by kestolove95(m): 2:22am On Nov 06, 2019
Finally Tinubu has succeeded..

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by ursullalinda(f): 2:22am On Nov 06, 2019
In a sane country a prof like Osibanjo cant be a Vice to some one who can't locate his certificate.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by NigeriaIsDoomed: 2:34am On Nov 06, 2019
ursullalinda:
In a sane country a prof like Osibanjo cant be a Vice to some one who can't locate his certificate.
His folks don't see anything wrong because of their subservient tendencies grin

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by timmycee: 3:11am On Nov 06, 2019
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seriously this is getting out of hand

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by VirginSearcher(m): 3:49am On Nov 06, 2019
I'm so angry with the way this clueless government is running the affairs of this country, Buhari is senile, there was clear display of ill-health in him at so many occasions, everyone knew he was sick and infact not fit to run again yet foo.lish Nigerians still voted him due to tribalism, selfishness, greed and illiteracy now look at what is happening. Mention any progressive nation the president always travels outside based on health grounds and run the country from there?. The way things are been administered in this country presently is sad, and u can only feel for Osibanjo the way the are maltreating him because he is human even though he supports their actions, we have never had it so bad like this. It's not supposed to be so! angry

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by truthfulparrot(m): 3:50am On Nov 06, 2019
If this news is true, I expect Osibanjo to resign immediately in protest. If not, he will be disgraced out.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by chriskosherbal(m): 3:51am On Nov 06, 2019
What is happening to osibanjo? Looks like things are really fallen apart.


Anyway check out my signature.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by NGpatriot: 4:11am On Nov 06, 2019
Fake news as usual...

Next...

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by RZArecta2(m): 4:11am On Nov 06, 2019
See as dem carry a whole star boy dey do yeye

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by Futuragetty: 4:35am On Nov 06, 2019
Eeyah but what is the VP's office doing with 35 aids?
Not sure Th Presidents wields such power.

Buharist will claim that Buhari and Osibanjo has the most harmonious relationship than any President and Vice ever did. They will call us rumor mongers.


Osibanjo was dinning at the mercy of Jagaban.
Buhari needed him to win. Yemi would have been fit for the Office of the AG, with his high moral standard and Honesty. Not the VP.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by Nobody: 4:46am On Nov 06, 2019
Did I read that the VP has up to 80 aides, what dafuq does he need all that for? Too much waste in the system and that's bad.

Well, I don't like this intimidating attitude of Buhari and his cabal towards Osinbajo. Dude is obviously not interested in 2023 so they should let him serve out his tenure in peace. No matter what they do to him, he has the love of many Nigerians across ethnic and religious divide and if he decides to run in 203, no intimidation from them can stop people from voting for him.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by kinzation(m): 4:59am On Nov 06, 2019
Who's pushing Buhari to do all these

Osinbajo should honorably resign. The President Buhari keeps embarrassing himself

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by Nobody: 5:06am On Nov 06, 2019
NigeriaIsDoomed:
His folks don't see anything wrong because of their subservient tendencies grin
Alex Ekwueme was VP to Shagari a grade ll teacher

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by Osezzua(m): 5:24am On Nov 06, 2019
surprising

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by ogbuefi677(m): 5:57am On Nov 06, 2019
Smartchoiice:

Alex Ekwueme was VP to Shagari a grade ll teacher
A sound grade 2 teacher is miles better than the certificateless gworo eater who failed all his military exams,hence no PSS(pass staff collage) FSS attached to his name like IBB,Abdulsalam etc.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by Nobody: 6:02am On Nov 06, 2019
ogbuefi677:

A sound grade 2 teacher is miles better than the certificateless gworo water who failed all his military exams.
Betraying Awolowo was your gravest mistake.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by voltron14: 6:02am On Nov 06, 2019
In all this long essay, they couldn't name a single person who was sacked.

Mtcheew.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by ogbuefi677(m): 6:07am On Nov 06, 2019
Smartchoiice:

Betraying Awolowo was your gravest mistake.
Get a life!!!

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by Nobody: 6:08am On Nov 06, 2019
I didn't see anything wrong in president sacking the aides he approved.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by NGpatriot: 6:09am On Nov 06, 2019
Nigeria is full of illiterate and gullible youths.

The VP is not an employee of the presidency and the so called imaginary cabal don't manage the affairs of the VP.

The presidency can not go to the office of the VP to sack people, that's the job of the VPs chief of staff and the manager of the office of the VP.

This story is full of rubbish and dumb conclusions, the Nigerian news media are tabloid blogsites, they manufacture rubbish and credit the rubbish to see faceless anonymous source, they can not even name 1 of the sacked employees.

A pseudo news media with zero knowledge of the government and how it functions.

Sad.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by Westtimeline: 6:11am On Nov 06, 2019
Smartchoiice:

Alex Ekwueme was VP to Shagari a grade ll teacher
Tell the slave bro

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by kayusely70(m): 6:16am On Nov 06, 2019
NigeriaIsDoomed:
His folks don't see anything wrong because of their subservient tendencies grin
Whats are the qualifications of your candidates apart from questionable wealth.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by Westtimeline: 6:16am On Nov 06, 2019
ogbuefi677:

A sound grade 2 teacher is miles better than the certificateless gworo water who failed all his military exams.
See how shameless you sound. Spit on your level of education.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by NGpatriot: 6:17am On Nov 06, 2019
MelesZenawi:
I didn't see anything wrong in president sacking the aides he approved.


The president doesn't hire, approve or sack people in the VPs office, that's the job of the VP chief of staff.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by NGpatriot: 6:19am On Nov 06, 2019
Westtimeline:
Mr mumu, the joke is on you. Can you remind me the level of education that shagari, your slave master had that your darling son ekweme was errand boy to then grin.

Just asking ni o.


Most of these illiterates don't know their own sad and pathetic history.

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by Badb0y4lyf(m): 6:19am On Nov 06, 2019
Buhari is biting than what he can chew

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Re: Buhari Fires 35 Aides In Osinbajo’s Office - Daily Nigerian by Nobody: 6:19am On Nov 06, 2019
NGpatriot:



The president doesn't hire, approve or sack people in the VPs office, that's the job of the VP chief of staff.


Go educate yourself.

He is the one In-charge of all affairs.

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