The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday dissociated itself from the ordeal faced by the former spokesperson of the Department of State Services, DSS, Marilyn Ogar, who was demoted and redeployed from the agency’s headquarters to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
Her redeployment was, however, reversed following public outcry from those, who believed that while the demotion may be justified, the redeployment to Maiduguri, a hotbed of Boko Haram, was punitive.
It would be recalled that Ogar had told Channels Television last year that each time the APC had an election, a spate of bombings followed, stressing that, “It is not the first time security forces are being deployed for election
duties; we had provided security for election in Edo and at the end of that election, permit me to say, there was no bomb blast.
“We moved to Ondo and the Labour Party won in Ondo, there was bomb blast. We moved to Anambra and APGA won in Anambra, there was bomb blast. We moved to Ekiti, PDP won in Ekiti, there was bomb blast.
“We thank God that we were able to deploy appropriately. The results have come out and the APC has won and thank God, there was no bomb blast.”
But speaking with Sunday Independent, its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said Ogar and others whose promotion were reversed knew their promotion did not follow due process. He stressed that it was why none of
them had come forward to challenge the decision.
At the twilight of the Goodluck Jonathan-led administration, Ogar and 28 others were promoted from Grade Level 15 to 16 while 16 others moved to Grade Level 17 from 16. The promotion rankled the agency as some officials who were due for promotion were left out despite being extremely qualified for the promotion.
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