Nigeria's Presidential spokesman Shehu Garba, has stated that ex National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, was planning to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari following the events of the 2015 presidential elections.

“The day there was a security siege at my home, I woke up to see that my house had been surrounded by armed policemen in the course of the campaign,” Mr. Shehu said at The Red Media Summit in Lagos.

“In fact it was the cocking of their guns that rose me and my family members from our sleep," he said, adding that tens of policemen, police vehicles, and some other unidentified vehicles surrounded his home.

“Of course it was much later that we came to know why they had come. Even the APC Presidential Campaign was penetrated by fifth columnists, and I will make this confession, because a day before that siege we had had a meeting with the security committee at which we agreed that we were going to run a story announcing that the National Security Adviser at that time, Mr. Sambo Dasuki, was staging a second coup d’etat against Muhammadu Buhari.

“The former National Security Adviser was involved in a coup that threw out Muhammadu Buhari as military president in 1984.

“This time around, all the things that followed, the postponement of the election on account of this and that and a lot of the thinking of the campaign was that this was yet another coup being hatched by the National Security Adviser and we eventually discovered that this siege on our homes was to pre-empt the story.‎”


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