Senate President, Bukola Saraki has reportedly sacked 98 of his aides. According to sources in the Senate said most of the affected aides are staff of the National Assembly Management who were deployed in the Office of the President of the Senate. About 100 aides were said to be affected in the downsizing which was said to have started Wednesday last week.
An aide to Saraki told correspondents, “They started last Wednesday and they have finished distributing the letters on Tuesday. Out of the 300 aides, about 100 were affected. You know we have some of our colleagues that are based in Kwara,” he said. Saraki’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu said the exercise wasn’t a witch hunt but an effort to reposition the office of the senate president. “The main purpose was for efficiency of that office; it’s for us to have people that will help that office to work better. It’s entirely the decision of the senate president to do the repositioning,” he said. Among those affected were the director of protocol, Arthur Ndiwe and the head of administration, Mrs Folasade Adigun.
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