Buhari Warned Ex-Power Minister Mamman of Imminent Sack
The recently sacked Minister of Power, Engineer Sale Mamman, was aware of the fate awaiting him 24 hours before he was fired, The Nation gathered on Friday.
President Muhammadu Buhari was said to have personally informed Mamman of his imminent sack on Tuesday after inviting him to the Presidential Villa.
Buhari, according to Mamman’s Special Adviser on Media, Mr.Aaron Artimas, even gave the ex-minister the option attending the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday where news of the sack was broken.
Mamman, however, chose to stay away from the meeting.
Artimas said there was a mutual relationship between the President and the ex-minister which made Buhari personally pick him without lobbying from anyone and which also led to the President telling him why he had to be dropped.
Artimas was said to have been dropped to pave the way for the strengthening of the cabinet and alleged tension in the ministry.
Asked to confirm whether the ex-minister collapsed as reported in some newspapers (not The Nation), Artimas dismissed the reports as fake.
He noted that his principal had over stressed himself on his return from Chad and did not sleep for up to eight hours.
Mamman’s blood pressure, according to his aide, rose and he became a bit ill but never collapsed.
His words: “It is the wicked fake news as usual because Nigerians are becoming vindictive and making conditions extreme for people we don’t like having issues with.
Source:thenationonlineng.net
