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FORTY-TWO AIDES TO PRESIDENT REMOVED


Following the incident at the Presidential Villa, 42 aides to President Muhammadu Buhari have been removed.
According to a source, CPSO to the president, chief detail to the president, ADC to First Lady, escort commander, and 38 others were removed from the villa.
Recall that the First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, her children and Aide-de-Camp (ADC), Usman Shugaba were alleged to have breached security protocol in the Presi­dential Villa while attempting to force President Buhari’s nephew and personal assis­tant, Sabiu Yusuf, to go into self-isolation for traveling out of Abuja recently.
The altercation was said to have led to at least two gunshots being fired within the sacred precincts of the presidential seat of power, a dangerous escalation of the crisis of confidence between the First Lady and the pres­ident’s other relatives in the struggle for control of access to the president. Yusuf was said to have managed to flee the scene with bloodstain injuries sustained during the attack.
Trouble actually started on Thursday night, penul­timate week, when the first lady and three of her chil­dren, Zahra, Halima and Yu­suf, accompanied by some of her security aides, led by Shugaba, stormed the resi­dence of Yusuf, House 8 and one of the president’s guests houses, by the Pilot Gate of the Presidential Villa, insist­ing that Yusuf should pro­ceed on self-isolation for 14 days, to save the president’s family from the danger of COVID-19.
Yusuf had four days earli­er returned from Lagos after visiting his wife, who was recently delivered of a baby.
The situation, however, went out of control, when the First Lady’s ADC, in his attempt to apprehend Yusuf, popularly known as Tunde (having been named after Bu­hari’s former Chief of Staff, Supreme Military Headquar­ters, Tunde Idiagbon, when he was head of state in the 1980s), discharged his weap­on in the premises.
The gunshots, which were described as ‘security breach,’ in the Presidential Villa, forced Yusuf to scam­per to safety and eventually took cover in the nearby house of his uncle, Mamman Daura, also Buhari’s nephew.
There were also indica­tions that the matter esca­lated because of four days of the insistence by Aisha that Yusuf should self-isolate af­ter returning from his Lagos trip.
The encounter was said to have degenerated into a heated argument as Sabiu insisted that he was not the only aide of the president, who had traveled to Lagos, citing the case of the new Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, whom he claimed has been going to Lagos every weekend, without anybody pressuring him to self-isolate.


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