Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

President Muhammadu Buhari is said to be angry over last week’s sack of Lawal Daura, former Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS), by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.

Investigations by Daily Independent in Abuja at the weekend indicated that the president and those close to him were unhappy given the manner Daura was abruptly relieved of his job by Osinbajo.

Daura was fired following last Tuesday’s early morning invasion of the National Assembly by masked security operatives which prevented lawmakers and members of staff, including the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Mohammed Sani Omolori, from accessing their offices.

Although the masked security operatives claimed they acted based on “order from above”, reports indicated that Daura didn’t get the nod of Osinbajo, who is acting on behalf of President Buhari, to carry out the operation.

While dousing tension that the action by Osinbajo may not have received the blessings of President Buhari, who is currently in the United Kingdom (UK) on vacation, Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, said the presidency was one, adding that there was no way such a decision would have been taken without an accord between Osinbajo and his boss.

However, a presidency source who spoke with Daily Independent said President Buhari and his men were not happy over the manner Daura, a close ally of the president, was unceremoniously booted out of office.

He, however, said President Buhari would not likely reverse the decision upon his return, saying, “Doing so may lead to widespread condemnations in Nigeria and the international community.”


He continued: “I can tell you authoritatively that President Buhari was not in the know before Daura was fired.

“Given Buhari’s style, he wouldn’t have fired him immediately like the Acting President did".


"I believe the Acting President, a very tough and disciplined man, has had enough of the insults from the cabals and decided to put his foot on the ground by using Daura as a scapegoat.

“Prior to this, many of these powerful cabals believed they were only answerable to President Buhari who appointed them.

“If you remember, during the last medical vacation by President Buhari, some of these people bypassed the Acting President and took sensitive documents to the president in the UK but he sent them back to Nigeria, telling them to report to Osinbajo whom he had delegated authority to.

“I believe, with the development, other powerful appointees who had hitherto taken Osinbajo for granted will now sit up and know they can lose their jobs before President Buhari’s return and any action taken by the Acting President may likely not be reversed, especially if it is in national interest and is applauded by majority of Nigerians and the international community".

“I understand the Acting President also decided to fire Daura to exonerate himself and prove to Nigerians that he knew nothing about the invasion.

“I think the DSS was trying to rope him in when they said they barricaded the National Assembly after ‘order from above’.

“When people hear the word ‘order from above’, the impression they always have is that the order is from the president.

“Yet, Osinbajo as the Acting President, knew nothing about the invasion. I think they knew that if they briefed him, he won’t approve it.”

Also speaking to Daily Independent, another credible source said: “If you look at the statement by Femi Adesina, he never categorically said President Buhari endorsed the sack.

“He only said the Acting President has the full powers of a president which he exercised. There is nowhere Adesina said President Buhari was briefed and he gave his nod for Daura’s dismissal. There are still some issues there which remain unresolved.

“From what we know, the Acting President takes full responsibility for the actions and he is ready to damn the consequences.

“If you know him, he is a very contented man and he is more of a technocrat than a politician. If you remember in May this year, he said he was ready to resign.

“Remember what he said in Benue. He said: ‘My Lord Bishop, you said you are not a politician, I am also not a politician. As a matter of fact, I’m also a priest and I’m a Christian, a born-again Christian. Because I’m a born again Christian, my destiny is not determined by any man but by God who I serve. Let me assure you that under no circumstances, none whatsoever, will I give up my faith or refuse to stand up for my faith. You can take that to the bank. Even the position that I currently occupy, I did not ask for it and I’m prepared to leave it at a short notice’.

“So that is Osinbajo for you. The president, including his loyalists, are not happy about the decision but the deed has been done.”

In its reaction, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it was not surprised that President Buhari was unhappy over the development.

Kola Ologbondiyan, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, said even if the president had decided to punish Daura, it won’t be as fast and drastic as done by Osinbajo.

“We are not surprised because even if President Buhari decides to punish the sacked DSS boss, it would not have been swift and drastic as done by the Acting President.”

https://independent.ng/disquiet-in-presidency-over-sack-of-daura/amp/

WHY WILL THE EVER LYING ROGUES BE HAPPY WHEN THEIR UNDERCOVER DAURA AGENT IS SACK. CLOAKS OF DECEPTION AT IT PEAK.

The truth has started emerging

Daura is gradually becoming an adopted hero of PDP supporters.

Who says God is not wonderful?

As expected. If the NASS incident had happened with buhari around. Nothing would have happened

Tyrants everywhere

Buhari the terrorist will not be happy with the treatment meted out on his foot soldier Daura...
Daura takes orders from Buhari the terrorist..

I have no doubt that Osibanjo will make a great president... He's educated and decisive
Everytime Buhari leaves the country... We see glimpses of hope....


You will not see those zombies on this thread...
When they come like the one above.. It's to derail the thread
Chanting sai barber like headless chickens
Pathetic things

Corrinthians:
Daura is gradually becoming an adopted hero of PDP supporters.

Who says God is not wonderful?

Dig a hole and crawl into it
Do all of us this favour....

If I were Osinbajo I'd quickly relieve all the members of Buhari's kitchen cabinet aka cabal of their duties and have them arrested too. Have them seriously framed for treasonable felony like coup plotting and make sure the press and the entire world gets to know.

Sharpshooota:


Dig a hole and crawl into it
Do all of us this favour....

Daura is gradually becoming you people's hero. Isn't God wonderful?

Mtcheew...cut-and-join-news

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Corrinthians:
Daura is gradually becoming an adopted hero of PDP supporters.

Who says God is not wonderful?

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keep deceiving yourself

Corrinthians:
Daura is gradually becoming you people's hero. Isn't God wonderful?

Get a life now there is time

The country is in ruins while Mr President is on vacation in London. I will not run a poultry farm the way these crooks are running Nigeria.

God bless Aisha Buhari, a woman with integrity. A woman that has the goodwill of Nigeria at heart.

She cried out, she told us about this same cabal that's running the country and even most appointment came from that circle. Of course she's just a woman and if the husband can't listen to her because the situation is beyond Buhari, who else would.

Well, now it seems Buhari is coming out of the northern elite shell he has been controlled and caged for long.

This matter no concern me na Afonja and Alimi Matter be this...

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This days people and media houses just cook up meaningless stories, and PDP and IPOB agents on nairaland will start to rant rubish, how this story take make any small sense?

The cabal secretly sent documents to PMB and he returned them back to osibanjo.

Osibanjo fired daura and appointed a replacement without PMB knowledge.

This drugs nnamdi kwunu give Igbos to they take is really working.

Sharpshooota:


Dig a hole and crawl into it
Do all of us this favour....

The last time someone dug a hole and crawled into it, it was from Abakaliki to Abidjan.

FarahAideed:
The truth has started emerging

Why not buy ice cream and senselyn capsules 500gm and take while waiting for the truth to emerge from market.

Buhari will come back and re-instate him.
It has happened before, it'll happen again.

How dare ordinary commissioner sack a Daura saint?!

This is public knowledge for those who knows Buhari. He would never sack Daura because of anything. He didn't bring him out of retirement for nothing.

Okay

Ipob pigs are hopeless and desperately looking for hope. If Satan can go against Buhari, they would willingly follow Satan.

But who has noticed the recent romance between Ipob miscreants and disgraced fulani politicians?

Wawa pigs are in a hurry to serve fulanis.

is this the epistle of John?

Racoon:
Thought APC said the VP took the decision in agreement with the president & in good faith? [b]Something is bound to happen that will shake Nigeria these days.Fingers crossed.Ndi Oshi them. [/b]

Nothing will happen that will shake Nigeria! Prophets of doom.

Yeye news

I thought they said Osibanjo consulted him before sacking Daura.

APC, a house divided among itself.

Let them continue to deceive themselves. The mistake we all made is we put too much trust in this Daura man in the first place. Nobody knew this country will be worst when he came on board. I pray God correct this anomaly by 2019. we are tired of this killings and unrest.

See confused APC ijjiots.

The left hand of APC never knows what the right hand is doing. This DAURA DUNCE did not know O’SILLY BAD JOKE was gonna sack “Dandaudu Daura”?

According to the “report”?
O’SILLY BAD JOKE! You go soon defect too.
How market?
One term VP loading . . . . .OsinBADE! You are no longer PART OF “THE CABAL”!