The presidency on sunday the 28th of January 2018 released a statement reacting to claims about the newly appointed Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.
Read the statement below:
NIA DG: FACTS OF THE MATTER
A lot of half-truths, misinformation, and outright falsehood
have attended the announcement of a new Director-General for the National
Intelligence Agency (NIA), in the person of Mr Ahmed Rufai Abubakar .
Some of such unfounded stories include that Abubakar had
retired from the services of NIA as an Assistant Director, because he failed
promotion examinations twice, and had to quit, willy-nilly. Others claim he is
married to a Moroccan, and so cannot hold such sensitive security position,
while others say he was born and bred in Chad, and he holds dual nationality.
All these have been widely disseminated on the social, and
some mainstream media. With the formal assumption of office by Mr Abubakar, it
is now necessary to set the facts straight.
The new NIA DG retired from Foreign Service as Deputy
Director (not Assistant Director) and three times during his career, had won
Merit Award for competence and meritorious service. Failing promotion
examination can only exist in the fecund minds of fiction writers. His last
position before the new appointment was as Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Foreign Affairs/International Affairs where again he quietly
proved himself.
Mr. Abubakar’s parents hailed from Katsina State, and had
settled in Chad at a point in their lifetime. The new DG did his primary school
in Ndjamena (then Fort-Lamy), but returned to Nigeria for his secondary and
University education. He never at any time held Chadian nationality.
Mr Abubakar’s only wife hails from Katsina State, indeed,
from the same community as the husband. The story of being married to a
Moroccan can only be tale by moonlight, concocted by people who love a fib.
The President appointed the new DG because he had worked closely with him in the past two years, and sincerely believes that he would add value to the NIA.
Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media and Publicity)
January 28, 2018
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