{"id":22307,"date":"2019-11-06T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T13:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=22307"},"modified":"2019-11-06T14:30:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T13:30:59","slug":"22307-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=22307","title":{"rendered":"Osinbajo’s aides sacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 of at least 35 out of over 80 aides in the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, DAILY NIGERIAN can reliably report.
\nThe president is currently in London, United Kingdom for a two-week \u201cprivate visit\u201d and is expected back in Abuja on November 17.
\nDAILY 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.
\nCredible sources who preferred anonymity said the aides may be formally issued their sack letters on Wednesday.
\nPreparatory 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.
\n\u201cAlthough 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,\u201d said a source familiar with the development.
\n\u201cNone of them were queried or interdicted for any wrongdoing. It is not about cutting cost, because no aide was sacked in the president\u2019s 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\u2019s influence.\u201d
\nBoth 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.
\nOsinbajo\u2019s travails<\/strong>
\nThere 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\u2019s control to either his office or some ministries.
\nInsiders said the president\u2019s powerful handlers, otherwise known as cabal, were unhappy with some critical decisions taken by the vice president in the president\u2019s absence.
\nFeelers believe that top among Mr Osinbajo\u2019s \u201ccrimes\u201d 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.
\nAnother 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.
\nBut the president first wielded the big stick by taking away the Special Intervention Programmes, SIPs, from the vice president\u2019s office to the newly created Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development.
\nThe SIPs include the famous TraderMoni, the Home-grown School Feeding Programme, Government Economic Empowerment Programme, N-Power, among others.
\nOn September 16, Mr Buhari replaced Osinbajo-led Economic Management Team with Economic Advisory Council that will directly report to his (president\u2019s) office.
\nAccording a report by PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday, even the controversial RUGA project has also been taken from Mr Osinbajo\u2019s control after the recommendation of the president\u2019s powerful Chief of Staff Abba Kyari.
\nTaking a cue from Olusegun Obasanjo?
\nShortly 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\u2019s alleged plan to contest against him at the party\u2019s primaries.
\nAt the peak of estrangement, the former president fired Mr Atiku\u2019s key aides in order to allegedly settle the political scores.
\nThose 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.
\nBy Daily Nigerian<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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