The police officer who fired the controversial gunshots inside Aso Rock, CP Abdulkarim Dauda Daura, has reportedly been sacked.
Daura, a nephew to President Muhammadu Buhari had been the Chief Personal Security Officer to the President.
Recall that the incident occurred on Thursday during an attempt to persuade the Special Assistant to the President, Sabiu Tunde Yusuf, a nephew to President Buhari, by the First Lady, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, to respect the COVID-19 guidelines, following his alleged refusal to go on self-isolation after returning from Lagos led to a security breach.
The incident also led to the arrest of police officers attached to the president’s wife, including her Aide-De-Camp (ADC), Usman Shugaba, and Escort Commander.
Aisha Buhari, unhappy with the move by the police authorities, called on the Inspector General of Police via her Twitter handle, to free her ADC and other police aides taken into custody.
But Buhari through a statement by Garba Shehu, his special assistant on media and publicity ordered a probe into the shooting.
Upon his indictment, President Buhari swiftly directed the Inspector General of Police to remove him immediately and has since been transferred to Police College, Kaduna State, as Commandant.
It was gathered that Abdulkarim Dauda has had one of the fastest promotions in the history of the Nigeria Police, sources from Aso Rock said.
In 2015 when Buhari came to power, he was serving as a Divisional Police Officer, DPO in one of the local Divisions in Cross River State and was only a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), at that time.
However, he rapidly rose from CSP to the rank of Commissioner of Police in two years, a feat none of his mates never got remotely close to, till their retirement.
According to Aso Rock sources, people who knew him well always lament the gross manipulation of the system, and undue exploitation of his office as Buhari’s CSO to attract speedy promotions to himself without merits.
They alleged that he was less than average in their sect, and has not done anything extraordinary to merit such promotion.
As the negative uproars generated by his controversial promotions were not enough, Aso Rock sources said that by 31st December 2019, CP Abdulkarim Dauda and hundreds of his course mates, officially retired from the Police, having completed their statutory record of 35 years in service.
But, Abdulkarim Dauda resorted to some subterfuge and mischief to extend his tenure.
Dauda again, manipulatively, prevailed on the IGP to extend his tenure till May 2023, when the President’s tenure will end.
He secured the Extension, as he demanded, all for self aggrandizements.
He’s rumoured to have corruptly enriched himself and has since become stupendously wealthy and power drunk.
Rumours are rife that, it was in one of his usual displays of primitive power stupor, that he ordered the indiscriminate and reckless shooting in Aso Rock Villa.
It was gathered that Abdulkarim Dauda is a deeply complicated man, who suffers from self-indulgence, superiority complex which drives him to dangerously pull down any of his perceived competitors – even when they are not in competition with him.
This is ostensible because, he’s constantly conscious of the truth that, he’s promotions are not only unmeritorious, but they’re also questionable.
The above led to the unwarranted attacks Abdulkarim Dauda has serially lunched on his kinsman, CP Mustapha Dandaura – the immediate past Commissioner of Police, Rivers State, the sources claimed.
CP Mustapha, a University graduate, was enrolled as a Cadre Officer, unlike Abdulkarim who was recruited as an unconfirmed inspector.
They both began their career in police within the same year, with Mustapha clearly being ahead by virtue of his entry qualification.
Dauda’s emergence as the President’s aide, however, gave him an ample opportunity to demonstrate his wickedness against Mustapha.
Some have said, Dauda met Mustapha in 2015, as CP already, when he came from Calabar to interview the then IGP Arase.
It was gathered that in 2019, Abdulkarim Dauda instigated the powers that be to redeploy CP Mustapha Dandaura out of Anambra State before the general elections.
Afterwards, Presidency sources said the IGP returned CP Mustapha to Anambra, where he performed excellently well until he was transferred to Rivers State for a rescue mission to get rid of the rampant increase in criminalities then.
CP Mustapha period in Rivers State, as everyone testified; witnessed the most unprecedented success in crime-fighting, brought peace, restored security in the entire State, and placed the State as one of the safest places to live in Nigeria then.
But, unknown to everyone, someone in Aso Rock was very sad and bitterly sad with Dandaura’s achievements in Rivers State.
It was gathered that he had initially tried to bias the Governor’s mind against Dandaura, auguring the Governor to reject Dandaura.
Months later, Abdulkarim lies were exposed by the performance of the Dandaura.
Covid 19 confusions afforded Abdulkarim another opportunity to lunch his attacks yet again, against CP Dandaura.
This time, he successfully sold the story that Governor Wike is fighting the federal government. And that the best way to get at the Governor was to redeploy all the Service Chiefs in the State.
But, unknown to everyone is his real underlining motives – to get at CP Mustapha Dandaura – and redeploy him out of the State.
At a point, he was said to have demanded that CP Dandaura should not be allowed to work at Force Headquarters, but should be posted to Police college Kaduna, but the IGP refused, the presidency sources alleged.
