There have been several reports in the media of a security breach in the Presidential villa which led to shots been fired by some security personnel.

Some of the report claimed that there was an altercation between the President Wife, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, her children andl Aide-de-Camp (ADC), Usman Shugaba while attempting to force President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew and personal assistant, Sabiu Yusuf, to go into self-isolation for traveling out of Abuja recently.

The altercation led to at least two gunshots being fired within the sacred precincts of the presidential seat of power, a dangerous escalation of the crisis of confidence between the First Lady and the president’s other relatives in the struggle for control of access to the president

The Presidency on Sunday come out with a statement confirming the incident and the arrest of some staff of the Villa..

Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity while addressing the matter said the villa “wishes to acknowledge concerns expressed by several members of the public regarding the recent incident among the occupants of the State House which escalation led to the arrest of some staff by the police.

Mr. Shehu went further to assure Nigerians that the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, is not, and was not at anytime in any form of danger arising, either from deadly infections or the reported incident by security personnel which is currently under investigation.

The statement revealed that the location of this particular incident happened outside the main residence of the President.

In the meantime, the presidency has said that Armed guards and other security personnel assigned to the State House receive the necessary training of especially weapons handling and where they come short, their relevant agencies have their rules and regulations to immediately address them.

A report in Thisday newspapers on Sunday said “trouble started on Thursday night, when the first lady and three of her children: Zahra, Halima and Yusuf, accompanied by some of her security aides, led by Shugaba, stormed the residence of Yusuf, House 8 and one of the president’s guests houses, by the Pilot Gate of the Presidential Villa, insisting that Yusuf should proceed on self-isolation for 14 days, to save the president’s family from the danger of Covid-19.

Yusuf had four days earlier returned from Lagos after visiting his wife, who was recently delivered of a baby.

The situation, however, went out of control, when the First Lady’s ADC, in his attempt to apprehend Yusuf, popularly known as Tunde (having been named after Buhari’s former Chief of Staff, Supreme Military Headquarters, Tunde Idiagbon, when he was head of state in the 1980s), discharged his weapon in the premises.

The gunshots, which were described as ‘security breach,’ in the Presidential Villa, forced Yusuf to scamper to safety and eventually taking cover in the nearby house of his uncle, Mamman Daura, also Buhari’s nephew.

What snowballed into that terrifying moment in the Presidential Villa that night, it was learnt, was the fallout of four days of insistence by Aisha that Yusuf should self-isolate after returning from his Lagos trip”.

count | 192

Presidency Confirms Arrest After Security Incident at the Villa