The re-organisation of the nation’s security may have begun with the sack yesterday of the National Security Adviser to the President and the Minister of Defence.
The National Security Adviser, General Andrew Azazi has been immediately replaced by Sambo Dasuki , a retired colonel.
Colonel Dasuki had served as Aide de Camp (ADC) to former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd).
He is the son of deposed Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, who was sent packing by late military dictator, General Sani Abacha.
The news of their sack was contained in a terse statement released by the spokesman to the President, Mr Reuben Abati. No reason was given for their removal.
Before the latest development, there have been several calls for the removal of the National Security Adviser, General Azazi and the Minister of Defence, Haliru B. Mohammed over high level of insecurity in the country and especially the inability to curb the terrorist activities of the Boko Haram sect with their constant serial bombings, bloodletting which has led to several hundreds of death and maiming of innocent civilians and in some instances soldiers and policemen.
However, recently at a public gathering in the South-South part of the country, Azazi attributed the rise in the activities of the Boko Haram sect to the heightened politicking of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) towards the 2015 Presidential race.
He was then randomly condemned by the top hierarchy of the PDP who did not mince word in calling for his removal as it was wrong of him to have accused the ruling party which produced the government under which he was employed as its National Security Adviser.
It will be recalled that the President himself in a rare outburst told Nigerians sometime ago that there were ‘’Boko Haram’’ sympathisers in his cabinet and other government operatives.
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