President Buhari
An
investigative report has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari has
at least 101 aides, which he shares with his wife, Aisha Buhari, the
vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, and others. Between himself, his wife and close lieutenants, President Muhammadu Buhari has at least 101 aides, PREMIUM Times exclusively reports.
However, over 50 percent of those aides are attached to the office of the vice president.
A list of presidential appointees serving as aides to President
Buhari, his wife, Aisha Buhari, the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, and
other government officials has been obtained.
Apart from the two men, Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, has eight aides attached to him.
Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has six
presidential aides atttached to his office, while the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation has five of such aides.
The wife of the president has three recognised aides while the two
presidential media assistants are attached to the Minister of
information and Culture, Lai Mohammed.
Mr. Osinbajo is said to have appointed at least 15 of those aides
between June and August, 2017 when Mr. Buhari was away on medical
vacation.
‘ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN’
The list shows that Mr. Buhari’s office has aides on wide range of
issues, from key areas of administration and media to social events and
housekeeping.
The area with the highest number of aides is media, which has eight
appointees – at least one known media aide of the president is however
not listed.
The eight in the list, apart from the two official spokespersons of
the president, include two aides on new/social media, two on
photography and one aide each for “TV Media” and “Broadcast Media”.
LION SHARE FOR OSINBAJO
But while Mr. Buhari has a total number of 24 aides, Mr. Osinbajo has 52, going by the list.
Apart from the initial 21 appointees in the office of the vice
president, who handle key areas from economy to social investment
programme and media, the vice president has another list of 31 aides to
his name.
For the latter list of 31, the aides are grouped into two; 14 are
identified as donor funded while the rest are categorised as “government
funded”.
Those identified as being funded by donors include senior special
assistants on power, IDPs, power privatization, monitoring and
evaluation, among others.
Omissions
However, like a previous list of appointees officially released by the president, this list is also not without omissions.
Omitted from the list, by check, are at least one aide each for Mr. Buhari and Mr. Osinbajo.
Bashir Ahmad, a Personal Assistant of Mr. Buhari on New Media is
excluded so also is a special assistant to the president on
inter-governmental affairs, working in the office of the vice president,
Abdulrahman Baffa Yola.
The list also does not include security personnel and civil
servants attached to these individuals, who an insider said are also in
their dozens.
For example, both the president and the vice president are said to have protocol officers and chief security officers.
The president also has an army colonel serving as his Aide de Camp,
ADC. A senior police officer is serving the vice president in similar
role.
“This is in addition to a routine of other officials deployed from all over the government to serve the two men,” a presidency source said.
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