Ugochukwu Ezeagwula
The Presidency has ordered an investigation into the roles played by senior State House Security Officials in the crisis that resulted from the sudden illness of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua.
President Goodluck Jonathan, during his maiden Presidential Media Chat last Sunday, had said that some senior government officials who were not political appointees barred him and other top government officials from seeing Yar‘Adua before his death on May 5.
It was learnt that security agents were investigating those believed to be responsible for the decision.
It was gathered that the State Security Services had been directed by President to investigate the roles played by the late president‘s Aide de Camp, Col. Mustapha Onoyiveta; the Chief Security Officer, Mr. Yusuf Tilde; and the former National Security Adviser, Major Gen. Sarki Muktar, from the time Yar‘Adua was evacuated to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment on November 23 last year, till his death on May 5, 2010.
Asked who stopped him from seeing Yar‘Adua before his death, President Jonathan said during the media chat, ”There were senior government functionaries; they were not political office holders. They were security personnel”
The ex-ADC, CSO and NSA were believed to have worked in concert with the former First Lady, Turai Yar‘Adua, and a clique made up of the late president’s closest aides to prevent government officials from seeing the then ailing Yar‘Adua.
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