Directors in the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA) have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stop signing Documents he doesn’t understand.
The directors sent this message to the president in a secret memo amid claims that the President is considering tenure extension for the current NIA director-general, Ahmed Abubakar.
It would be recalled that Abubukar was appointed on January 10, 2018, and his tenure is expected to expire in January 2022.
After the president’s decision was made known to the public, many have described it as a “breach of national security.”
In the memo, the directors collectively noted with alarm a few choices Buhari has made subsequent to being “purposely” misinformed his aides and advisers as a result of “selfishness”.
According to them, the president’s inability to pay rapt attention to matters is what caused all this.
The letter reads in part;
“As the head of this massive entity call Nigeria, sometimes your aides, advisers and handlers, may, out of selfishness and vested personal interest, deliberately mislead you, to unwittingly do some things against your known principles, unfortunately, because, they know that sometimes, due to some urgent numerous state matters that need your urgent attention you may not necessarily be too meticulous about everything,”
Going further, the directors described Buhari’s decision on the tenure elongation as a “wrong one based on a wrong advice”.
They went on to state that some of the president’s decisions are borne out of inadequate facts of situations.
“We learnt that the tenure of the current DG, which comes to an end in January 2022, is being considered (for extension) or has been secretly renewed,” the spy chiefs noted.
“We have known all along that there has been clandestine and sometimes open intense lobby to mislead you to take the wrong decision, as was done in the last appointment,”
“Please excuse our use of this language to describe your last decision on this matter as a wrong one based on very wrong advice. With all sense of humility and modesty.”
The NIA chiefs accepted the president couldn’t have endorsed the appointment of Abubakar in 2018 on the off chance that he had been appropriately educated with regards to conditions against his appointment.
“There is no way you will knowingly approve any illegality and/or anything done without due process as the last appointment of the current DG,” stressed the spy chiefs.
The directors brought up that Buhari floated the National Security Agencies Act, which indicated that the NIA DG ought to be appointed on the advice of the national security adviser.
They also noted that Babagana Monguno, the current NSA, had let the National Assembly know that he knew nothing about Abubakar’s appointment when the president approved it in 2018.
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