President Buhari makes new appointment

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has made a new appointment.

The President has approved the appointment of a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Aliyu Musa, as his Chief Personal Security Officer.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, broke this news in a statement on Monday.

Musa who is from Nigerian Police Force Zone 5, Benin City, as his last station, hails from Niger State. He resumed work officially today, 29 June 2020.

“Musa’s appointment follows the redeployment of his predecessor, Commissioner of Police, Abdulkarim Dauda,” Shehu wrote.

Dauda is one of the security operatives redeployed from the Presidential Villa after the shooting incident that involved security aides attached to the First Lady of the country, Aisha.

Aisha and her security details had stormed the official residence of the President’s Personal Assistant, Sabiu Yusuf, trying to force him into 14-day isolation after he travelled to Lagos considered to be the epicentre of COVID-19 in Nigeria.