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President Buhari has Fired Senior Aide For Leaking Presidential Information
His Excellency President, Muhammadu Buhari, has reportedly
fired a Lai Yahaya, top policy adviser, over allegations of providing internal
State House information to an online newspaper.
It was gathered that the sacked Yahaya,
a former adviser to the Nigerian presidency on electric power initiatives was
accused of being the central source for on story on PeoplesGazette, which
exposed Bolaji, the son of Buhari’s Chief of Staff Ibrahim Gambari.
The former presidential aide according to sources who spoke
to PeoplesGazette, has since relocated from Nigeria to Europe amidst fears of
further retribution.
a presidency official said. “They said he leaked a story to your newspaper and they
cannot work with him in confidence, They tried
over and again to get him to confess, saying that some details that were
revealed in the story could only have been divulged by him.”
On the other hand, the PeoplesGazette has denied Yahaya, a
graduate of Oxford University’s Balliol College, played any role in the story
that exposed Gambari’s son.
The article which led to the sacking of the presidential aide is an October 2020 story that cast a spotlight on Bolaji
Gambari as the new head of a cabal of administration associates inside the
Presidential Villa.
The Gazette had also accused President Buhari
administration of pressuring network service providers to cut off connections
to its site.
Meanwhile, NewsOne Nigeria reports that the sacked presidential aide is a lawyer and sustainable energy consultant who previously worked
at the State House until 2017 under late chief of staff Abba Kyari, following
which he served as an adviser to Raila Odinga at the African Union.
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