DSS replaces Buhari’s CSO, sends him on foreign course | Nairalaw

The Department of State Services has removed Mr Bashir Abubakar
as President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief Security Officer, Our report
gathered authoritatively on Friday night.

Abubakar was immediately replaced with Mr Idris Kazeem
Ahmed.

According to insiders in the Presidency, Abubakar will be
proceeding on strategic course at the National Defence University
(Fadena), Buenos Aires, Argentina as a safe-facing measure.

Security source said DSS authorities had directed that the
changes should take immediate effect.

It was further learnt that the Administrative Officer of the
Presidential Villa, Abubakar Maikano, had also been directed to
stand in, any time the new CSO is not available.

This is the second time Buhari’s CSO will be replaced since his
assumption of office in May 2015.

His first CSO, Abdulrahman Mani, was removed in July 2015 and
was replaced with Abubakar.

Abubakar was said to have become a one-man cabal that had become
too powerful to the detriment of the interest of the Buhari’s
Presidency.

Another presidential source said the removed CSO was almost
sacked but for the intervention of some of the friends of the
President

Some powerful people were said to have complained about his
activities.

For example, it was gathered that Abubakar stopped some friends
of the President from gaining access to him and was also said to be
rude to the current Director-General of the DSS, Yusuf Bichi.

The source said, “I think he was power-drunk. He allowed the
position he occupied to enter his head and felt that he got the
position by promotion. He was rude and even was responsible for the
non-acreditation of some media house at the Villa.

“He talked down on people and even friends of the President had
complained bitterly about him.

“He had also had issues with the current DG of the DSS. So, his
cup was full. The course is just a face-saving measure.”