By Cross Udo, Abuja
Professionals and Businessmen in the country yesterday said they have uncovered plots by certain unpatriotic persons to distract and weaken the Tinubu-led Government through coordinated attacks on the Chief of Staff.
The Professionals and Businessmen under the aegis of Forum of Nigerians Professionals in Politics (FNPP) said intelligence at its disposal showed that those behind the attacks on the person and office of the Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, are enemies of the Tinubu administration who aim to distract the government from actualizing its set objectives and goals.
National Coordinator of the Forum, Chief Okey Ezenwa in a statement in Abuja, alleged that the attackers are after the office of the Chief of Staff, knowing the sensitive nature of the office and person of the Chief of Staff to the success of any administration.
According to the statement, “Information at the disposal of our Forum indicates that this plot is the reason for the unwarranted vicious attacks against the Chief of Staff to the President, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, knowing the sensitive nature of the office and person of the Chief of Staff to the success of any administration.
“Intelligence available to the Forum shows that these elements are not particularly after Femi Gbajabiamila as a person but they are sinister forces, who from the onset seek the failure of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his administration for their selfish agenda.”
Ezenwa, a former Assistant National Secretary of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former National Director of the Jonathan/Sambo Presidential Campaign Council, further alerted that the enemies of the Tinubu administration recruited unsuspecting fifth columnists and hatchet writers to fabricate false allegations against the Chief of Staff to cause internal disaffection and weaken the administration.
He said, “Being aware of the value the administration will draw from the experience and capacity of a Chief of Staff of the status of an immediate former Speaker of the House of Representatives, the anti-government elements have enlisted unsuspecting individuals and interests as fifth columnists and hatchet writers to discredit the Chief of Staff, with spurious allegations intended to inject bad blood in the Presidency and weaken the administration.
“Our Forum has examined the allegations and claims against the Chief of Staff and found all of them to be unfounded fabrications being conjured and put in the public space with the intent to trigger internal disaffection and weaken the Tinubu administration
“Given that a strong Chief of Staff is pivotal to the stability and success of governments all over the world, those who plot to weaken and derail a government always start with vicious attacks on the office and person of Chief of Staff to the President.
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“This is because when a strong Chief of Staff is crippled or caused to be removed, the government itself becomes vulnerable to unpatriotic forces, eventually distracted and fails.
“It is instructive to recall that when Chief Mike Oghiadomhe was removed as Chief of Staff to President Jonathan, the government became weakened and vulnerable to political attacks which largely distracted and affected its performance.
“In the same vein the death of Mallam Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to former President Muhammadu Buhari also marked the beginning of the vulnerability of the Buhari administration leading to a weakened power base which eventually crippled his political prowess and also led to the loss of popularity and apparent performance failure” the Forum stated
The Forum observed that this is the first time a person of the standing of an immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, fresh and dripping with the existing influence of superintending over a large power base, is appointed as Chief of Staff apparently to add value to the Government and make it strong.
It, therefore, cautioned those behind the attacks to desist from such as it is completely against the collective interest of the people.
The Forum pledged support for President Tinubu and urged him to remain focused and not allow these elements to distract, detract, and weaken his administration, especially in his commitment to repositioning the economy and checking corruption in the country.
