Osinbajo got Buhari’s nod to fire Daura – Presidency

The Presidency has said President Muhammadu Buhari was consulted by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo before the Director General of State Security Service (SSS) Mr. Lawal Daura, was sacked on Tuesday.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said this while fielding questions from State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja.
“What we will like to say for the umpteenth time is that the Presidency is one.
Whenever the President is proceeding on vacation he transmits power to the Vice President, who then become the acting president.
On this occasion he also did that.
“So the acting President has all the powers of a president.
Now it’s a matter then of decency and we know that the acting President is a decent man, there is no tussle for power, there is no tough battle between him and the president.
“When something like what happened yesterday will happen, there then will be unanimity.
There is no way there won’t be unanimity on that kind of decision.
It’s not something that will be discussed with the press but know that there was unanimity in the decision,” he said.
Osinbajo on Tuesday sacked the SSS boss over unauthorised takeover of the National Assembly complex, saying the action was “a gross violation of constitutional order, rule of law and all acceptable notions of law and order.” In a three-paragraph statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in the Office of the Acting President, Mr.
Laolu Akande, Osinbajo said the “unlawful act which was done without the knowledge of the Presidency is condemnable and completely unacceptable.”