Dementia: Tinubu says Naja’atu Muhammad was sacked for incompetence, campaign espionage
The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of Bola Tinubu has said Naja’atu Muhammed, its former head of the civil society organisations directorate, was sacked due to incompetence and for leaking vital information.
In a statement on Tuesday, Mahmud Jega, a media aide to Mr Tinubu, described Ms Muhammad’s resignation as hasty and preemptive after the campaign council had discovered her leakage of sensitive information to opposition political parties.
The campaign said Ms Muhammad resigned conveniently “before she was sacked for incompetence, quarrelsomeness, and after being uncovered to be a mole planted in the winning campaign council to leak sensitive information to our desperate opponents,” Mr Jega said.
Ms Muhammad, an appointee of President Muhammadu Buhari on the board of the Police Service Commission, said she voluntarily resigned her position on Monday and also alleged that Mr Tinubu is grappling with dementia.
Mr Jega said Ms Muhammad, 67, had succeeded in deceiving the unsuspecting public by claiming that she resigned when her sack letter had arrived at her desk.
He added that her desperate, fact-free, machination-filled and imaginary utterances since her sack from the PCC had proved beyond doubt that she was unfit to serve.
“Not being a medical doctor but one whose profession in the last three decades was as a political jobber and expert name dropper.
“She nevertheless issued a pseudo-medical report on our presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, after a brief meeting in London.
“Even the association of native doctors would sack her for quackery and for reaching a medical conclusion without any test,” Mr Jega said.
He added that in contrast to Ms Muhammad’s claim, Mr Tinubu had been running a most punishing campaign schedule than any of the presidential candidates.
“As conclusive proof of her unstable and unreliable character. Naja’atu said in her pre-emptive resignation letter that she was quitting party politics as the political parties have no ideological differences, and her values and beliefs no longer align with party politics.
“Within a day, pictures surfaced in the media showing her meeting with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate and declaring her support for him,” he said.
Mr Jega added, “We were least surprised about her dramatic exit, coming after she went on television to disparage our party and President Muhammadu Buhari; only a mole could behave in such a manner.”
Ms Muhammad did not immediately return a request seeking comments about the allegations.
(NAN)
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