President Bola Tinubu, GCFR, has reversed policy moves publicly perceived as designed to whittle down the Vice-Presidential position in the country.
The moves were put in place by his predecessor, General Muhammadu Buhari,Rtd. The reversion became manifest in President Tinubu’s decision to return the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, and the National Hajj Commission Of Nigeria, NAHCON, to the office of the Vice- President.
Theliberationnews can authoritatively reveal that the decision to move NEMA from the supervision of the Vice-President to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs was taken at the beginning of the second term of former president Buhari’s administration when the supposed ill-feelings over alleged misdeeds of the Vice-President were checkmated.
At the period, Osinbajo was alleged to have overstepped his bounds as Acting President during Buhari’s medical sojourn abroad by taking some policy decisions perceived by then cabal as against the interest of some of the president’s inner circle. This informed why Buhari did not subsequently transmit power to Osinbajo throughout the second term.
Theliberationnews can confirm that the return of NEMA to the office of the Vice-President is in compliance with the act that established the agency that the immediate past president violated.
President Tinubu also returned the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) to the Office of the Vice President. Mr Olusola Abiola, Director, Information, Office of the Vice President, made the disclosure in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
Furthermore, the president approved a formal structure for the Office of the Vice President as well as an appropriate number of technical and administrative aides that would work with the vice president in the discharge of his responsibilities.
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