The days of Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, may be numbered in the Presidential Villa over his alleged sale of appointments to the highest bidders, a report has said.
Daily Post reported that supporters of President Bola Tinubu are calling for a thorough investigation into the allegation and his suspension.
According to the report, Gbajabiamila has been engaging in substituting some names approved by the president for appointment since the inauguration of the administration.
The matter was said to have come to a head after the recent appointment of 10 Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) by President Tinubu.
The chief of staff allegedly replaced the name of the Ekiti REC approved by the president with that of a former commissioner under the immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
An unnamed source quoted by Daily Post said, “The REC from Ekiti that he (Gbajabiamila) put there, the man was Fayemi’s former commissioner, that was not the person Asiwaju signed off on. The person Asiwaju signed off on was one Toyin (Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola), the former Legal Adviser of INEC.
“But when the announcement was made, two members of the President’s cabinet met with him to complain that the person they nominated had been changed with another person.
“The President was infuriated, he said he checked the name of the woman before he signed the list.
“He summoned his CoS, but when he arrived, he was stuttering. The President asked him to bring the list he signed.
“The President said so, what he has been hearing is true that whenever he signs something, it will be changed. The President gave three instances, that he signed for something and was changed. He felt bad and gave him the last warning. He directed that the woman’s name must be on the list.”
The source was further quoted as saying that due to the infractions, a plan has been hatched to ease Gbajabiamila out of the Presidential Villa and shut him up with an ambassadorial position.
“This is like the 5th time the CoS is embarrassing the President. There is a plan to ease him out of Villa by giving him an ambassadorial position,” the source said.
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