Junaid Mohammed, a lawmaker in
the second republic, says some of President Muhammadu Buhari’s kinsmen want him
to reinstate Lawal Daura, former director-general of the Department of State
Services (DSS).
Daura, who was sacked following
the DSS blockade at the national assembly, is from the president’s home state
of Katsina.
In an interview with PUNCH,
Mohammed said: “There is an ethnic attempt by those who are related to Buhari,
who are from Daura, who must be related to Lawan Daura, who now want to travel
to the United Kingdom to ask Buhari to reverse himself and virtually bring back
Lawan Daura and then sack the national security adviser who was supposed to be
Lawan Daura’s boss but who he never respected and who he was not even in
speaking terms with.”
Buhari returned from his vacation
in the UK on Saturday.
Mohammed also said Adams
Oshiomhole, chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is unfit
for his present position.
Oshiomhole, who won the
chairmanship seat unopposed, is regarded as the preferred candidate of
President Buhari
“I don’t believe Adams Oshiomhole
has the qualities of a political party leader and that in addition to so many
other blunders and display of bad faith by Buhari himself has further
complicated matters,” he said.
Mohammed said the emergence of
Oshiomhole as APC chairman is bad for the country and the party.
Since Oshiomhole assumed office,
the ruling party has lost some of its prominent members, including Senate
President Bukola Saraki, to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“What we had before he became
national chairman of the party was already too much,” Mohammed said.
“Bringing Oshiomhole and making
him chairman of the party, add that to the blunders of President Muhammadu
Buhari and his presidency; simply means Nigeria and the political system should
be ready to pay a high price.
“Nobody in his right senses will
look at this fellow (Oshiomhole) and think he can be a political party leader
who can maintain some harmony, some level-headed approach to sorting out
problems. He has now become more or less the glorified national publicity
secretary of the APC.
“Nobody for example, now knows
that the APC has a publicity secretary other than him. He has been abusing
other parties and their leaders and the others return the favour by abusing
him, the government, the president and everything thereafter.”
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