For the second time Buhari 'locks' out Osinbajo from security meeting

For the second time Buhari locks out Osinbajo from security meeting

For the second time in a row just within 2 weeks General Muhammadu Buhari decided to lock out his vice who is a Christain pastor from security meeting discussing Boko Haram terrorists.

Buhari on Wednesday met behind closed doors with some security chiefs to purportedly marshal out plans that will be presented at a meeting of the Lake Chad Basin Commission in Abuja on Thursday. However, Prof Osinbajo was conspicuously absent at this meeting.




The meeting,  which held inside the Defence House in Abuja was attended by all northern men in the Nigeria security heiercahy including the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.); Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Ismail Aliyu; Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh; and Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin. The Chief of army staff, another Christian from the Southern Nigeria was also absent.

According to a state house correspondent who spoke to BREAKING TIMES on Wednesday, this is the second time  Osinabjo will be “denied access” into a strategic security briefing with the President. “Normally, the Vice President should be part of these inaugural security briefings because he is the second in command and will deputise for the President in his absence. His absence two times in a row is not healthy at this early stage of their working relationship. We don’t actually know what is going on”, the source said.

Last week Wednesday, June 3rd 2015,  Osinbajo was reportedly ‘locked out’ of President Muhammadu Buhari’s meeting with the National Security Adviser on the orders of President Buhari. According to reports, Vice-President Osinbajo was refused ‘security clearance’ to attend the meeting as a result of security concerns by the Commander-in-Chief allegedly over what he described as a “very sensitive meeting.”

Permanent Secretary at Nigeria’s Ministry of Defence, Ismail Aliyu briefed State House correspondents at the end of today’s meeting, which lasted less more than two hours.

He said they discussed issues relating to the operationalisation of the Multinational Joint Task Force and the contributions of each member state.

He said Buhari reiterated at the meeting his desire to end insurgency in the country and the region in shortest possible time.

Aliyu said, “We came to brief Mr. President on the meeting of the Lake Chad Basin Commission.

 Buhari appears not to be the only one undermining the office of the Vice President. Newly elected Senate President, Bukola Saraki shunned a truce meeting called on Monday by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Senator Saraki boycotted the meeting after reportedly telling party leaders that as a former governor he could not attend a meeting summoned by a ‘mere commissioner’, referring to Professor Yemi Osinbajo, whose previous public office was as Commissioner of Justice in Lagos State.