President Jonathan under pressure to sack ‘bad aides’

Presidential aides deemed not to have added value to activities of government and the promotion of the image of President Goodluck Jonathan may be sacked any moment from now following security reports on acts of misdemeanors levelled against some of them, Saturday Tribune can report.
The need for President Jonathan to demonstrate seriousness and commitment to his ambition for reelection in 2015 is one of the reasons he may ease off aides in this category, according to recent findings.
He has, of late, commenced reconciliatory moves with aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), mending fences with former President Olusegun Obasanjo during his last visit to the General’s residence in Abeokuta, and is said to be making moves to meet more retired Generals on the same initiatives.
A serving minister told Saturday Tribune that apart from security reports that variously indicted many of the presidential aides and certain cabinet members, reports from aggrieved elders of the PDP had pointed towards the excesses of some of the aides.

The aggregate concern on the excesses of some presidential aides, as disclosed, was that many of them were the cause of the stand-off the president has been having with leading PDP members, because they have been benefiting from such tremendously.
Some of the aides were said to have been fuelling discord between the president and many of those he was hitherto on good terms with – on flimsy excuses, a situation said to have kept many of the leaders away from seat of power.
Another top government functionary disclosed that the president and members of his think-tank realised this much each time the president called for breakfast meetings with eminent Nigerians and all he could find surrounding the tables were third-rate or, oftentimes, lowly rated individuals. “Good people could no longer be found around the President,” the source said.

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