Closely following last week’s compulsory retirement of Bauchi-born Yusuf Tilde, former chief security officer to the deceased president Umaru Yar'adua, government looks set to sweep away the Aide de Camp, Col. Mustapha Onoyiveta.
Closely following last week’s compulsory retirement of Bauchi-born Yusuf Tilde, former chief security officer to the deceased president Umaru Yar'adua, government looks set to sweep away the Aide de Camp, Col. Mustapha Onoyiveta.
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Onoyiveta has learned he will not be allowed to attend a program at the War College in the United Kingdom.
It is unclear if Onoyiveta faces “retirement” from the Nigerian army on account of his controversial role in the political crisis that engulfed Nigeria during the period Yar'adua was hospitalized in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Yar'adua died on May 5, 2010 after a prolonged battle with Churg Strauss Syndrome, an autoimmune disease.
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Col. Onoyiveta was part of the close-knit team of security officials that manipulated the Nigerian public over the exact condition of Yar'adua's illness, a political conundrum that nearly pushed Nigeria into a major constitutional crisis.
In particular, Onoyiveta directed the soldiers to seal off major areas of Abuja in February, when Yar'adua, on death’s bed, was smuggled back to Nigeria. Onoyiveta’s partner in crime was the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau.
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