Former presidential aide, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Monday,
revealed the identities of those he claimed are President Muhammadu Buhari’s
“cabal” members.
He gave the names in an article about Buhari’s late Chief of
Staff, Abba Kyari, entitled “How are the mighty fallen.”
The former Minister of Aviation was close to Kyari, who
decades ago, worked for the law firm of his father, Fani-Kayode and Sowemimo,
after his return to Nigeria from the United Kingdom.
Since Buhari assumed power in 2015,
there have been several reports and references to a certain “cabal” controlling
his government.
As of today, the Yoruba World Congress (YWC), insisted that
the clique exists.
YWC President, Prof. Banji Akintoye, in a statement, claimed
that Kyari was the one controlling most of the affairs of the Federal
Government of Nigeria.
He described Kyari as Nigeria’s “de facto President” before
his demise and suggested that he was the one controlling affairs.
The Yoruba leader said it was outrageous that Buhari ordered
all appointees and government officials go through Kyari on matters that
required his attention.
“We are talking of high public officials such governors,
ministers, ambassadors, top federal career civil servants, national assembly
members and, to our collective embarrassment, the vice-president.
“A Chief of Staff is no more than the head of the president’s
kitchen cabinet, the president’s own personal collection of personal staff,
that has no superiority to the structural pillars established by the
constitution of Nigeria.
“Abba Kyari’s unconstitutional position as de facto
president in recent times, coupled with an elected President who is
periodically nowhere to be found, has seriously denuded the legitimacy of
government in our country.”
In his piece, Fani-Kayode hinted that there are powerful
people around the president but that the deceased was not their head.
“Some say he was the leader of the cabal. This is a cabal
with seasoned and skillful old war horses, ancient northern political veterans
and warriors like Mamman Daura, Zangon Daura, Mahmoud Tukur, Ismaila Isa
Funtua, Lawal Daura, Baba Gana Kingibe and many others.”
He added that Kyari was a powerful Chief of Staff “but he
was far from being head of the cabal or being de facto President.”
Fani-Kayode stated if Kyari was the strongest of them, “many
of those (Buhari’s appointees) in office at the time of his death would not
have been there anymore because he would have fired them long ago.”
He added that God alone sees the heart, knows who is who and
“will call each and every one of us to account for our deeds and misdeeds. It
is not for me or anyone else to judge Kyari and it is not for anyone else to
judge me or to judge you.
The ex-minister posited that for all good deeds, “there
shall be reward in the afterlife and for our bad ones we shall suffer. That
applies to us all and as the Bible says, “let he that is free of sin throw the
first stone.”
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