Abacha family clears air on Buhari’s late body guard
The family of late Gen. Sani Abacha has revealed that the former President Muhammadu Buhari’s bodyguard, late Warrant Officer Lawal Mato, was actually given to Buhari by Abacha family as his personal security since 2003.
The clarification was contained in a statement by Alhaji Bilyaminu Yusuf an aide of Hajiya Maryam Sani Abacha and made available to newsmen in Kano on Thursday.
According to him, contrary to a statement credited to Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media and Publicity), it was the Abacha’s family that handed over late Mato to Buhari even before he won the election in 2015.
“So, for Garba Shehu to say that Mato was part of a team that the former President Umaru Musa Yar’adua restored to President Buhari as personal security, was not only untrue, but a complete misrepresentation of facts,” he said.
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He said that there was need for the presidential aide to correct the wrong impression already created on the issue so as to put the records straight.
He however, prayed to God to grant the deceased officer Aljannah Firdaus and his family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
Late Warrant Officer Lawal Mato died on April 21, after battling with diabetes for three years.
