Breaking : Potential Azazi and Jonathan clash ensues

Confusion over ‘Azazi’s comment on Jonathan’ 


There was confusion last night concerning a comment purportedly made by a self-styled aide of the recently removed National Security Adviser, General Andrew Owoye Azazi, alleging that President Goodluck Jonathan was too soft and hence could not carry out some of the advice given to him by General Azazi.

Mr Michael Awe, told Sunday Trust last night that the former NSA has dissociated himself from the newspaper report (not a Media Trust title), and that a reference to him as a spokesman of the former NSA was in error. 

Mr Awe said, “There was never a time General Azazi claimed that President Jonathan was too soft in implementing his advice. There is no truth about that report. It is all false, and mischievous. I’m not a Special Assistant on media to the former NSA, and I never claimed to be so.”

The report, which was in defense of the former NSA, quoted Mr Awe as saying that when General Azazi asked that General Muhammadu Buhari be arrested, and that some elements be prosecuted, President Jonathan did not act, claiming that such moves would destabilise his administration.

President Jonathan at the weekend, removed General Azazi as NSA and Alhaji Halliru Bello as Minister of Defense, as, during their tenure, the Boko Haram crisis escalated from the North-East to parts of the North-West and North-Central States.

The new NSA is retired Col Sambo Dasuki.