Here are
details of why President Muhammadu Buhari refused his vice President, Yemi
Osinbanjo security clearance to attend meeting with national security advisers.
President Muhammadu
Buhari alleged exclusion of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo from attending a
national security meeting this week was no longer new, nor is it any longer
news.
Osinbajo was reportedly refused "security
clearance" and “locked out” of Buhari’s first briefing with the national
security adviser on the president’s orders.
Buhari allegedly excluded his vice president from
the closed-door briefing due to security concerns over Osinbajo attending the
“very sensitive meeting.”
Buhari apparently felt it was too early in the
day to bring Osinbajo, the former Lagos state attorney general and senior
pastor, into his first briefing with the security chief.
The exclusive meeting on Monday with National Security
Adviser Sambo Dasuki and other security officials lasted for hours and was part
of the “debriefing process”.
Buhari allegedly excluded his vice president from the
closed-door
briefing due to security concerns over Osinbajo
attending the “very sensitive meeting.”
Buhari was informed on the security situation in
Nigeria, where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has killed and displaced
thousands of people in the last six years.
“They need to brief the president on the security
situation in their various areas. They need to update him officially on the
situation on ground,” a presidential aide said.
The meeting comes after the president announced
the relocation of the anti-insurgency command center from the capital city
Abuja to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital that has suffered a series of
deadly attacks in recent days including suicide bombings and a grenade
bombardment.
More than 50 people have been killed in Maiduguri
since Buhari was inaugurated on May 29. The president said the command center
would remain in the Borno state capital until the insurgents were restrained.
“The command center will be relocated to
Maiduguri and remain until Boko Haram is completely subdued.
“But we cannot claim to have defeated Boko Haram
without rescuing the Chibok girls and all other innocent persons held hostage
by insurgents,” Buhari said during his inauguration speech on May 29.
Prior to his inauguration, Buhari expressed
dismay that former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration had withheld
information and refused to brief the incoming government.
The party-elect All
Progressives Congress slammed the outgoing People's Democratic Party for
hindering a smooth transition one week before the presidential inauguration.
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