Adamawa Government House was rendered
vulnerable at the weekend, as the Police withdrew a large chunk of
policemen attached to the seat of the government where the state
governor, Admiral Murtala Nyako operates from.
But Nyako, while confirming the
withdrawal via a response to our enquiries yesterday, said he was yet to
be officially informed why the policemen were withdrawn.
Indications emerged at the weekend that a
top order had reduced the security operatives attached to the
government of the state from 170 to 30 in the past few days.
A news alert had also disclosed that 30
operatives that were yet to be redeployed had been asked to mount
security in Yola, Abuja and the Lagos offices of Adamawa state
government.
According to the Director of Press to
Nyako, Malam Ahmed Sajoh who was
contacted for a reaction, Nyako was not
informed either by the Adamawa Commissioner of Police or the
headquarters in Abuja, but that he is keeping his fingers crossed.
“We are waiting until Monday (Today) to
see whether they will inform us. We don’t want to impugn anything for
now. We are keeping our fingers crossed.
“We do not know the reason for the
withdrawal. They may have their reason.” Asked if the withdrawal will
compromise the security of the governor, Sajoh said Nyako does not live
in the government House but in his private residence secured by a
combination of soldiers, police and security details.
Efforts to get a reaction from the
police headquarters in Abuja were not successful. The Spokesman, Frank
Mba was not picking his calls. Text message posted to his phone was also
not responded to at the time of going to press.
It would be recalled that Nyako had in a
memo addressed to the Northern Governors Forum accused Jonathan’s
administration of carrying out alleged genocide in the north-east region
of the federation.
But the Presidency, through, the
President’s Senior Adviser on Public Matters, Dr. Doyin Okupe, responded
swiftly, stating: “The content of Nyako’s letter exposed him as lacking
a sense of history as well as incapable of rising above parochial
sentiments”, an on-line news portal reports.
Okupe added: “The letter was extremely divisive and intentionally meant to incite one section of the country against the other.
“Nyako’s action is a pathetic embarrassment to the Nigerian military, from where he derives his career antecedents,”.
In response, the Media Aide to Nyako,
Ahmad Sajoh, again carpeted the presidency, accusing it of failure to
respond to issues raised by his Principal in his letter to the Northern
governors.
His response reads: “The response by the
Presidency to Governor Nyako’s memo to Northern Governors has further
proved that those running the Federal Government are arrogant and
confused.
“They arrogate all knowledge and wisdom
to themselves alone. We hold the statements we released as true and
challenge those who claim to have a sense of history to cut-off the use
of jaundiced semantics to address the issues raised in this and several
other documents before it”.
An expanded security meeting presided
over by President Jonathan last Wednesday had allegedly taken a swipe at
the Adamawa state governor on his utterances, which it considered
uncomplimentary to the efforts by the Federal Government to contain
terrorism and insurgency in the country.
Efforts to get the confirmation of the
withdrawal of the police from the Adamawa Commissioner of Police, Daniel
Abakasanga failed as he did not answer repeated calls and text messages
sent to his mobile phone. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPPRO),
DSP Othman Abubakar also refused to comment on the issue, saying he can
only do so after speaking to his boss tomorrow (today).
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