Fresh facts emerged at the weekend from various sources to the effect that a group of individuals were unhappy with the appointment of General Andrew Azazi as the National Security Adviser (NSA) and some key ministers, outside the North.
Azazi assumed office as NSA on October 4, 2010, thereby becoming the first non-northerner to occupy the office since independence.
It was gathered that the group of the aggrieved individuals had vowed to destabilise Jonathan's government through the perpetration of attacks on strategic national institutions.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, cited the continuous retention of Azazi as being reprehensible to this group, as they had vowed to continue to sabotage his efforts at combating national insecurity.
According to the source, the aggrieved group may be vexed that the strategic office of the NSA had, for the first time, slipped out of the hands of the North and was currently being held by "a southerner and outsider."
Specifically, the group was said to be aggrieved that discreet hints to President Jonathan to dump Azazi had failed to yield fruit.
To this end, the group, it was learnt, had vowed that the present administration would not know peace until their demands were met by returning to status quo ante.
Investigations revealed that the group had been pressuring the president, through some politicians and traditional rulers, to sack Azazi and replace him with any of the former military chiefs that had held the office before.
The office of the NSA had always been occupied by northerners.
For instance, Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, a retired Major-General, served as NSA between January 2, 1990 to August 30, 1993; Abdullahi Mohammed, also a retired Major-General, served as NSA between July 3, 1998 to May 29, 1999; Aliyu Mohammed, a retired Lieutenant-General, served as NSA between May 29,1999 to June 1, 2006 and Sarki Mukhtar, a retired Major-General, served as NSA between June 1,2006 to March 8, 2010.
Gusau returned to serve between March 9, 2010 and September 20, 2010 as NSA.
Multiple sources confirmed that there were fears over the safety of President Jonathan if the position of the NSA slipped into the hands of those currently scheming for it.
"Jonathan has no problems with the North. After all, millions of northerners voted for him. He is, however, keenly aware that the office of the NSA controls the Presidential Air Fleet and, therefore, directly oversees his safety in the air.
"You see, some of those lobbying for the position now are persons Jonathan cannot entrust his life to," a source said.
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