Intrigues Shadow Redeployment Of Tinubu’s Chief Bodyguard

The move by the Department of State Services, DSS to replace Adegboyega Fasasi, the Chief Security Officer, CSO to President Bola Tinubu is drawing strong currents in the top intelligence and political circles in Abuja.

Vanguard reports that the new Director-General of the DSS, Mr Tosin Ajayi had recently withdrawn Fasasi and replaced him with Rasheed Lawal, a deputy director in the service.

While the move was interpreted as part of the ongoing reorganisation of the service by Mr Ajayi, it has, however, received criticism by some as a witch-hunt directed at the outgoing CSO.

 The critics of the move allege it as a plot to break down what they see as the political clout that has been weaved around the outgoing CSO. They have as such vowed to reverse the redeployment.

However, other sources point it as a bold move by the new DG saying that the withdrawal of Fasasi for the purpose of attending a professional course as part of the moves to restore professionalism in the service.

The basis of sending Fasasi on the professional course, Vanguard gathered was that he  had been promoted at least twice in the last year by the erstwhile DSS D-G, Mr Bichi. The promotions it is claimed were done without the requisite professional courses needed to fit in with his new position.

However, very reliable sources in the Intelligence Community in Abuja averred that the move is being seen as another move to avert the kind of Major Al-Mustapha scenario during the Sani Abacha regime when a service personnel was seen working outside the loop of the service.

Reacting to the claim that Fasasi was unjustly sent on course, a reliable source told Vanguard yesterday evening:

“My brother, the truth is not being painted correctly by politicians. There is no witch-hunt, the fact is that I can tell you that the move is being applauded by many people  who see it as a way of attaining the goals of the service in promoting the overall wellbeing of the presidency. You are looking at minute or perhaps personal goals.

“You remember that Ndume interview about the logjam of seeing the president and all that stuff which I cannot tell you but which this replacement aims to address.

“Even more, the outgoing CSO has to get the requisite professional training to sustain his career path in the service, so I don’t see what the fuss is all about,” the source said.

Concluding, the source said:

“Instead of you journalists pointing the pubic at the good work and successful deployment of intelligence in tackling the bad boys and bandits in the last few months you are going about teasing about a professional deployment,” the source added in dismissing contentions around the redeployment of Fasasi as CSO to the president.

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