Presidency talks on plots supposedly sidelining VP Osinbajo

VP Osinbajo

The Presidency has waved aside asserts that a specific scheme had assumed control over the presidential villa, sidelining the VP, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo since the arrival of President Muhammadu Buhari from London. 

While uncovering that Osinbajo remains Buhari's nearest associate, the presidency depicted the assertion as a reused despise battle. 

This was contained in an announcement by the Senior Special Assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu. 

He stated, "Regardless, it is totally silly and silly to compose that in one week of the President's arrival, the VP has been sidelined. Very actually, the VP remains the compatriot and the nearest guide to the President. 

“He has attended all the President’s engagements all through the week with the exception of two: one, the VP was away to Taraba State and two, the Juma’at Muslim prayer because he is a Christian.

“It is difficult to understand what anyone wants to achieve peddling such falsehood that the President, himself a former military general and Head of State and Commander-In-Chief is subject to undue influence and manipulation. It is both ridiculous and inconceivable.

 “As someone who works very closely with President Buhari, I can testify to how my years of experience as a newspaper editor are often put to the test by the sheer thoroughness with which the President edits every single document brought to his desk.”

Garba additionally clarified that each update, articulation, discourse conveyed to his foremost was liable to his (Garba) extreme investigation, directly down to the position of commas and full stops. 

Including, he stated, “Therefore, alleging that President Buhari signs memos brought to him by government officials or a so-called cabal without reading them, promptly throws questions on the validity of the universal anonymous sources that the correspondents of these articles cite. 

The President's Special Assistant noticed that there have been assaults on Malam Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to the President, including that the CoS resembles the headman of all the president's political representatives as he has coordinate obligation regarding numerous levels of staff working for the president. 

As indicated by Garba, Kyari assumes the part of liaising with services and parastatals so he can have full consciousness of the issues being talked about at whatever point these parties meet with the president. 

Shehu proceeded with, “It goes without saying that anybody who occupies such office has impeccable credentials of total loyalty to the President.

“Clearly, some consider this oversight role as a usurping of the President’s powers, and it is their misunderstanding of the situation that some media organisations have swallowed hook, line and sinker.

“Under this administration, as the ones before it, the office of the Chief of Staff is a branch of the President’s office. There are no power centers here.

“The only power center is that of the President who is sensitive to grassroots level administration which the Chief of Staff must ensure. For Abba kyari, there is no life after work. He is available to the President 24/7.”

Source: http://dailypost.ng/2017/09/27/presidency-speaks-cabals-allegedly-sidelining-vp-osinbajo/

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