By Pascal Oparada
One of Buhari’s critics and Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media at Kennesaw University, Farooq Kperogi, has weighed in on what is going to happen in the coming days following the death of Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari.
Kperogi, who had maintained that Kyari is the de facto president, said in a Twitter thread that he had been asthmatic and diabetic and it would take nothing but a miracle to save him.
Kperogi said the potential replacement for Kyari would be Babagana Kingigbe, who has been acting on his behalf since he went into isolation and then to the hospital.
He said the emergence of Kingigbe would throw up a ferocious fight in the presidency with the First Lady also asserting her authority.
“Babagana Kingibe who has been acting on Kyari’s behalf and who will probably formally replace him, doesn’t quite know Buhari in the same way that Abba Kyari did quite know Buhari in the same way that Abba Kyari did.
“There is a yawning, potentially disorienting power vacuum in the presidential villa now, which actually emerged really visibly since Kyari went out of circulation before his eventual death. Watch out for Aisha Buhari, there is a yawning, potentially disorienting power vacuum in the presidential villa now, which actually emerged really visibly since Kyari went out of circulation before his eventual death.
Watch out for Aisha Buhari to assert herself more aggressively and to work to grab power in the fashion that Turai Yar’adua did. In fact, she already started this the moment Kyari took ill. One of the first things Aisha did was to cause Jalal Arabi, Permanent Secretary of the State House and Kyari’s dutiful protege, to be redeployed from the Villa. The remnants of the cabal will, of course, fight back.
“But the fight between Aisha and members of the cabal who are merely Kyari’s proteges, would be a fight in the dark because Buhari who is supposed to intervene is an insentient being who’s barely aware he’s alive.
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According to him, Osinbajo and Tinubu group would further widen the gulf allegedly existing in the presidency.
“The in-fighting will create noticeable cracks in the Buhari group that Osinbajo, Tinubu, and other interest groups would exploit to feather their nests and advance their interests. In other words, in the coming days and months, expect the cessation of any pretence to governance and an unprecedentedly factious, dog-eat-dog, recriminatory fight between competing for power blocs, ” he said.
