Monguno revelations shows Buhari is dead and buried – Nnamdi Kanu

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Nnamdi Kanu leader of Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB has said that following the revelation of Babagana Monguno that Abba Kyari overrides Buhari’s decisions it now prove beyond doubt that Buhari is far dead and Buried.

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Nnamdi Kanu in a post said: Those Nigerians who out of a combination of laziness, ignorance, envy, stupidity, cowardice, timidity and curse, challenged my irrrefutable assertion that Abba Kyari and not the late Buhari is the unelected president of Nigeria, can now see and hear their own National Security Adviser (NSA) Babagana Monguno confirm what IPOB and every top level intelligence agency in the world have known for long.

I know this relevation from Nigeria’s NSA will come as a shock to brainless and roundly hopeless unity begging one Nigerianists but the inescapable truth remains that IPOB is always right. When we say Buhari is dead and buried in a shallow grave in Saudi Arabia with Abba Kyari now in charge in Aso Rock as the ruler of Nigeria, that is the undeniable fact. It was Abba Kyari along with Garba Shehu, Gov. El-Rufai, Mamman Daura, Lawal Daura, Babagana Monguno, Sultan of Sokoto, Issa Funtua and Tukur Buratai that conspired to recruit Jubril Al-Sudani to replace Buhari. Today they have fallen out with each other, hence the infighting.

abba Kyari, Buhari and Monguno
Abba Kyari, Buhari and Monguno

Fulani Jihadists dangled the presidency in front of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and used it to buy Yoruba media silence on this greatest Fulani fraud of all time. Yoruba media did an excellent job of keeping gullible Nigerians in the dark as Fulani reign of impunity, banditry and terrorism gathered momentum. Today every ethnic group in the damnable British colonial experiment called Nigeria is paying a very price for it. Ignore IPOB at your peril.

How can ordinary Chief of Staff override the orders of a living president and an erstwhile ruthless and unconscionable dictator for that matter? Where are the brains of some people? The same “no nonsense” military dictator touted by Yoruba media in 2015 is being overriden by a common civilian staff? Nigerians should use their brain for once!

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Nigerians, behold your real ruler, unelected President Abba Kyari.

Abba Kyari vs Monguno: Buhari recognises his Chief of Staff as ‘Deputy President’ – Ex-Emir of Gwandu

Former Emir of Gwandu, Major Mustapha Jokolo (rtd), has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari recognises his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari as “deputy president.”
Gwandu was reacting to the face-off between the National Security Adviser, NSA, Babangana Monguno and Kyari over the coordination of the country’s security.

He urged Buhari to sack both Monguno and Kyari for being “greedy and selfish” in the discharge of their duties.

The former Aide-De-Camp to Buhari during the President’s military regime stated while featuring on a radio programme in Kaduna.

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AUTHENTIC ALSO POSTED: Buhari is not in charge of Nigeria Gov-  Nnamdi Kanu reacts to Mongono vs Abba Kyari crisis

Jokolo reminded both Kyari and Monguno that Nigeria was greater than any individual, hence they should remember that all was watching.

He said: “The misunderstanding between them was borne out of greed, selfishness, if not, these two are brothers. They are all Muslims and from the same tribe. President Buhari had brought them to assist him in different roles, why then should there be any conflict of roles?

“Truly, General Munguno had complained, but he did not refer his complaints to the right people. He should have written directly to President Buhari, on how he felt about his Chief of Staff. This is because Buhari tends to recognize his Chief of Staff as his ‘Deputy President.

“Buhari had said everything should be done through the Chief of Staff, this implies that Buhari has given him limitless power and he can do anything. But this is a misnomer.”

Recall that a circular from the office of the NSA had a few days ago alleged that Kyari had hijacked the coordination of security leadership in Nigeria.

In the circular, Monguno had alleged that Buhari’s Chief of Staff had sidelined him in making strategic decisions in national security operations.

Abba Kyari overrides Buhari’s decisions, five other takeaways from NSA Monguno’s memo

President Muhammadu Buhari’s chief of staff, Abba Kyari, is one of the major impediments to Nigeria’s national security interest, the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, wrote in a memolast December.

Mr Monguno’s hands-on account of a connection between Mr Kyari’s alleged ‘meddlesomeness’ and an acute spectre of insecurity that has clutched the country was contained in a series of confidential circulars he addressed to top administration officials on national security.

The NSA also accused the chief of staff of sidestepping the president’s directive to impose his own decision for implementation, a claim that social media commentary said was all but a direct accusation of treason against Mr Kyari.

The revelations appeared to undercut an integral aspect of Mr Buhari’s response to critics: that there is unity amongst security chiefs towards a common interest of defeating fledgling terrorists and armed bandits — rather than admit apparent clumsiness and even a crack in his team.

Monguno

The security chiefs have also, until now, declined to openly acknowledge a gulf so wide between them that it had become largely unworkable for them to see eye-to-eye on serious security challenges that have left the country reeling from cascading violence.

In media interviews recently, Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai said insecurity was being confronted across board in the Buhari administration.

But Mr Monguno’s memo showed he and other service chiefs have been taking controversial orders from Mr Kyari, despite warnings from the NSA that such practice was not only unconventional but also in violation of the Constitution.

It was unclear how the presidency has been handling the fallout from the disclosure of Mr Monguno’s memo, with Mr Kyari and spokespersons Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu dodging repeated requests for comment.

Here are six takeaways from the NSA’s memos published.

The chief of staff and the national security adviser are at war

The first observation from memo is that Messrs Monguno and Kyari, two of Mr Buhari’s most powerful and worthwhile aides, are locked in a bitter confrontation amidst raging insecurity.

If there was any doubt about what was happening in Mr Buhari’s government, ample rumours have always been rife, the leaks have now shed an unambiguous insight into what has been going on. And, for the most part, Nigerians can overwhelming judge it does not augur any useful benefit to national security.

Mr Kyari has been overriding decisions already taken by the president

Perhaps the most potent of allegations raised against the chief of staff by the NSA was that he has been flagrantly discarding decisions already taken by the president to impose his own recommendation(s) on the government. It was a jarring allegation that borders on treason felony.

If the NSA’s claim is proven, Mr Kyari’s action would have made a mockery of Nigerian executive powers, which make it illegal to disobey a lawful directive of the president, on whose pleasure everyone down the executive chain of command — including members of the military and other law enforcement outfits — serves.

As an immediate step to curb further “breaches of procedure”, Mr Monguno reminded all security chiefs to stop recognising any directives from the chief of staff that do not carry the minutes of presidential decisions, or at least bear the president’s signature.

“Other than direct verbal directives from the President, written directives emanating from Mr President would be conveyed with a copy of his manuscript directive or at minimum, bear his signature,” Mr Monguno wrote in the memo.

Mr Kyari still wields a domineering influence in the administration

Since Mr Buhari settled down in office in 2015, Mr Kyari’s role as the chief of staff has made him perhaps the most-courted associate of the president, arguably more than the president’s wife and other family members.

Buhari
Buhari

The chief of staff’s influence has seen him exposed to some of the worst scandals of the administration. Shortly after telecoms giant, MTN, was slammed with a record fine in 2015, Mr Kyari was the one who allegedly played the middleman in negotiating the fines, a role that threw up allegations of fraud, Sahara Reporters reported.

An MTN official who allegedly played a key role in the negotiation lost her job amidst the controversy, but Mr Kyari held on to his position, even going on to take part in bigger deals on government’s behalf.

Mr Kyari’s influence was also a matter of serious concern for Aisha Buhari, the president’s wife, who has repeatedly lashed out at the chief of staff for allegedly ‘caging’ her husband and rendering her redundant in his government.

Last November documents showing Mr Kyari overriding Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on a crucial decision over ruga projects, a series of economic palliatives designed to curtail the herdsmen crisis.

In his memo, Mr Monguno said Mr Kyari was issuing directives to service chiefs without his knowledge as the NSA, nor the knowledge of the defence minister who, by law, also has significant supervisory role over security.

It was unclear when Mr Buhari began his friendship with Mr Kyari, but there is little question that it has remained deep and robust since 2015.

When Mr Buhari was reappointed in 2019, he issued a firm ordinance to all his appointees to clear through Mr Kyari on any matter that requires presidential attention. The president did not even single out his vice-president as an exception to that restriction.

A police equipment contract gone awry

While it remained difficult to categorically say what caused the rift between Messrs Kyari and Monguno, the memo provided a hint that a contract for police equipment might have contributed to it, at least.

The contract was said to have been entered with United Arab Emirates government in 2016 by the president himself.

At the time the contract was discussed, Mr Monguno said, there as an understanding that International Golden Group, a Dubai-based defence and security dealer, was the firm favoured to land the contract, whose value was undisclosed even though security sources described it as ‘lucrative’.

Mr Monguno said Mr Kyari set aside the agreement Mr Buhari entered with the Emirati Crown Prince and decided to look for another contractor to execute the contract. This, the NSA said, was infuriating because it was capable of portraying Nigeria as an unserious ally before the Emirati government.

Mr Monguno’s letter was in December 2019, it was unclear whether the stalemate had been resolved as of mid-February 2020 when the memo was leaked.

Mr Kyari “was holding sensitive meetings with security chiefs and diplomats without the NSA”

Mr Monguno said Mr Kyari was summoning security chiefs, these usually include the chief of army staff, chief of air staff, chief of naval staff, police inspector-general, civil defence commandant, the interior minister, defence minister and a host of other agency heads, without inviting him or even informing him about it.

Foreign diplomats based in Nigeria, including even ambassadors, were allegedly holding sensitive meetings with Mr Kyari without the NSA.

Mr Monguno said the practice was ‘unprofessional’ and a deviation from decades-long convention on such meetings. He did not mention any countries’ ambassadors as taking part in those illegal meetings that could threaten Nigeria’s national security and economic interest.

It was unclear whether the ambassadors that allegedly attended the meetings knew, or should know, that such meetings were questionable in the first place.

The chief of staff is merely an aide to the president

Mr Monguno further tore into Mr Kyari by emphasising that his role as the chief of staff to the president was merely symbolic and not grounded in Nigerian Constitution and other extant laws derived therefrom.

Nigeria practices constitutional democracy in the manner of the United States. But the role of a chief of staff only became a feature of the Nigerian presidency in 1999 under former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Successive presidents have named a chief of staff, a role that quickly became a force in the hierarchical structure of government.

Mr Monguno’s argument was that the chief of staff did not swear to a constitutional oath and should, therefore, not be seen issuing directives that carry serious implications for the nation.

And when it comes to national security, Mr Kyari’s job “stops at conveying Mr President’s written directives,” the NSA argued.

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