{"id":11795,"date":"2019-06-21T16:44:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11795"},"modified":"2019-06-21T16:44:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:44:15","slug":"lawan-under-fire-for-sacking-festus-adedayo-hours-after-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/lawan-under-fire-for-sacking-festus-adedayo-hours-after-appointment","title":{"rendered":"Lawan under fire for sacking Festus Adedayo hours after appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coalition of United Political Parties CUPP, has lambasted the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, for \u201csacrificing competence\u201d by withdrawing the appointment of Festus Adedayo as his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity hours after the appointment was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Adedayo, who has spoken on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2019\/06\/21\/festus-adedayo-speaks-sacked-lawan-vows-keep-hitting-buhari-tinubu\/\">cancellation of his appointment<\/a>, was removed after supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) kicked against it.<\/p>\n<p>Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, CUPP spokesman, in a statement on Friday, condemned how Buhari government kitchen members, supporters and social media warriors allegedly on the payroll of the ruling APC and the presidency opposed the appointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir grouse was that the celebrated columnist has many times penned pieces that were critical of President MUHAMMADU Buhari who is the head of the Executive Arm of government and cannot be allowed to work with the head of the parliament who is a stooge of the Buhari government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is surprising, to say the least, that the head of another arm of govt\/Senate President Ahmed Lawan succumbed to the pressure from Aso Rock and quickly withdrew Dr. Adedayo\u2019s nomination just for not been a stooge of the Executive arm of government.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOpposition political parties view this development as primitive, show of intolerance and sacrifice of competence on the altar of Halleluyah politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Lawan has, by this singular act, proved Nigerians right that the Senate under his leadership will be an annex of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led executive arm of government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CUPP hereby declares the Senate President as Buhari\u2019s boy over his decision to sack his aide for refusing to pledge loyalty to the President.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSenator Ahmed Lawan has, with this decision, left no one in doubt that the Ninth Senate under his leadership is an extension of Buhari Aso Rock bedroom. That is his mission and he will go to any length to achieve this.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-20\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coalition of United Political Parties CUPP, has lambasted the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, for \u201csacrificing competence\u201d by withdrawing the appointment of Festus Adedayo as his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity hours after the appointment was announced. Adedayo, who has spoken on the\u00a0cancellation of his appointment, was removed after supporters of the All Progressives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":11798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[34,97,204,648],"class_list":["post-11795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-apc","tag-buhari","tag-government","tag-lawan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lawan under fire for sacking Festus Adedayo hours after appointment - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/lawan-under-fire-for-sacking-festus-adedayo-hours-after-appointment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lawan under fire for sacking Festus Adedayo hours after appointment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Coalition of United Political Parties CUPP, has lambasted the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, for \u201csacrificing competence\u201d by withdrawing the appointment of Festus Adedayo as his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity hours after the appointment was announced. 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