I did not sack 35 aides of Osinbajo, says Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari, and Vice president Yemi Osinbajo 

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he did not fire 35 aides working in the office of the Vice president Yemi Osinbajo.

He explained that the 35 aides were only redeployed to a new ministry.



He however, described the misinterpretations of his directives as ‘unfortunate’.

The President stated this while fielding questions from NTA State House Correspondent at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja upon his return from a private visit from the United Kingdom.




The President described what happened as a re-organisation and not a sacking, stressing that, a new ministry has recently been created, that is, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.

“They said 35 people were sacked in the Vice President’s office but we just created a ministry and we reorganized but people are giving it an ethnic and political dimension. It is unfortunate,” the President said.


While media report had widely reported the sack of 35 aides, including the circulation of a list of those sacked, informed sources insisted that what the President directed was a redeployment and not a sack.

The President’s comment in the NTA interview last night on arrival from his UK private trip indicated that although some Presidential aides had confirmed the sacking of 35 aides, the President only gave express instructions for redeployment to ministries not sacking.