THE Southern and Middle Belt leaders forum has raised the alarm over what it called plans to to remove Matthew Seiyefa, the acting director general of the State Security Service (SSS).
The forum in a statement said it would kick against such a move and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to to call his chief of staff, Abba Kyari, to order.
In the statement signed by Yinka Odumakin (South-west); Bassey Henshaw (South-south); Chigozie Ogbu (South-east); and Isuwa Dogo (Middle Belt), the Forum urged President Muhammadu Buhari to allow the SSS to be run professionally.
“The plot to remove the Acting DG is said to be hinged on the professional reorganization of the service by him whom the cabal is now interpreting as removing APC elements in DSS for PDP apologists, a clear indication of the divisions this administration has caused in every facet of our life as a nation,” the statement read.
“Under the sacked DG, Lawal Daura, every need to organise the service along federal character and fill existing vacancies was ignored as he concentrated on nepotism in running DSS and keeping a coterie of those who have retired or have passed retirement in service and many of them having nothing to contribute.”
It said there were about 40 senior officers who were due for retirement or pre-retirement leave whom Mr Seiyefa had replaced in accordance with the service rules.
“Until the recent sack of Daura, 16 out of 17 service chiefs were from his (Mr Buhari) corner of the country.
“Since the president returned from his holidays in London, he has not made a comment on the invasion of the National Assembly by the DSS in his absence which led to the acting president rightly removing the former Daura, confirming speculation that he is not happy with the removal.”
The statement reads in part
Removal of Ag.DG SSS May Be The Last Straw
The attention of the Southern and middle Belt Leaders Forum has been drawn to a clandestine plot to remove the Acting Director General of the Department of State Security(DSS),Mr Matthew Seiyefa from office by a cabal in the Buhari presidency .
We ordinarily would have ignored this report but for the clannishness,sectional proclivity and exclusive handling of the security architecture of the country by President Buhari in the last three years.
He had defied all protestations from all well-meaning Nigerians in making appointments into all key and sensitive security positions in sectional and kith and kin affairs in a very insensitive and you-can-do-your-worst manner that until the recent sack of Daura 16 out of 17 service chiefs were from his corner of the country.
It is equally not lost us that since the President returned from his holidays in London he has not made a comment on the invasion of the National Assembly by the DSS in his absence which led to the Acting President rightly removing the former DG,Lawal Daura confirming speculation that he is not happy with the removal.
The plot to remove the Acting DG is said to be hinged on the professional reorganization of the service by him which the cabal is now interpreting as removing APC elements in DSS for PDP apologists ,a clear indication of the divisions this administration has caused in every facet of our life as a nation .
Facts at our disposal however show that what the Acting DG has done is a good example of how to run a diverse polity which this administration has ignored in the last three years.