The newly appointed national coordinator of the Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO), Mallam Gidado Ibrahim, yesterday assumed office with a call to members of the president’s support group and the general public to disregard claims that he ceased being member of the BCO.
The BCO had on Sunday announced the appointment of Ibrahim as the new national coordinator, following the suspension of Alhaji Danladi Pasali, the erstwhile national coordinator over alleged abuse of office.
In a statement issued yesterday by the principal staff officer of the new national coordinator, Safiu Manseur, Ibrahim urged members of the group to disregard in totality claims by the suspended national coordinator that he remains national coordinator of the group.
He said, “Pasali is just trying to mislead the general public and members of the group into believing that he is still in charge. But we call on our members and the teeming public to disregard his antics as Ibrahim has since assumed office and is set for the commissioning of the organisation’s new office and subsequent movement of the group into the edifice”.
On claims that Ibrahim had moved to the Presidential Support Committee (PSC) as the director of communications and strategic planning, Manseur stressed that membership of a political organisation does not exempt one from being a member of another organization, especially when they are all working for a common goal.
“The Presidential Support Committee and Buhari Campaign Organisation are like two sides of a coin working for the same purpose. So, there is no law that says Ibrahim being a member of the Presidential Committee should not be a member of the BCO,” he noted.
BCO further warned Pasali to stop using the Inspector General of olice and other law enforcement agencies to intimidate or harass its members Ibrahim.
Until his appointment, was the director of communications and strategic planning of the PSC.
The BCO had on Sunday announced the in a letter dated September 17, 2020.
The group noted that the suspension of the former national coordinator, Pasali, and subsequent appointment of Ibrahim followed myriad of allegations of corruption, high-handedness and breach of agreement signed with the organisation when he was appointed on 17 May 2017.
The group alleged that the suspended national coordinator, Pasali, breached his code of office by engaging himself in extortion of money from unsuspecting members of the public in the name of the organisation.
BCO categorically denied any insinuation of the organisation collecting money from individuals and group or public office holders to finance its activities.
It also announced the nullification of all appointments made by Pasali without consulting the chairman of the board of trustees.
The letter stated: “Alhaji Pasali’s one-man show forced many important members of the organisation to resign. He was also accused of unilaterally issuing appointment to people without consulting the Chairman of Board of trustee and executive members.
“Mr Pasali was in the habit of diverting the activities of the organisation to other locations, and failed as the National Coordinator to update the rent of facility housing the BCO office, hence causing the organisation embarrassment from the harassment by the landlord of the facility. A copy of the notice of expiration of the office rent is attached to the statement. What is more annoying than the flagrant refusal of Alhaji Pasali to pay utility bills of the office and allowances to Police Officers attached to the organisation”.
The organisation bemoaned the lackadaisical attitude of Pasali who it said consistently failed to support the law suit slammed on blackmailers of the Buhari administration and family.
