The new National Security Adviser, retired Col. Sambo Mohammed Dasuki, comes from the
royal family of Sokoto. He is the son of the former Sultan of
Sokoto, Alhaji Ahmed Dasuki, who was deposed by the military regime of the
late Gen. Sani Abacha.
Believed to be close to former dictator, Gen.
Ibrahim Babangida, Abacha dismissed Dasuki and some military officers in 1993.
Dasuki’s closeness to Babangida was said to have come about from the fact that
he was once the dictator’s Aide De Camp (ADC), and he was actively involved in
the coup that brought Babangida to power.
Dasuki later fled to United States in 1995 after he was accused by the Abacha regime of being a party to a coup plot allegedly led by retired Col. Lawan Gwadabe.
On his return, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, appointed him as the managing director of the National Security and Printing Company at the behest of Babangida.
A director of Regency Alliance, an insurance company, Dasuki attended the Washington DC and George Washington University, where obtained a BA (Bachelor of Arts degree) in international Relations and MA (Master of Arts) in Security Policy Studies respectively.
He had his military training in several institutions in Nigeria and abroad including the Nigerian Army School of Artillery, Oklahoma, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth Kensas.
His major task as National Security Adviser to the President, is arrest the Boko Haram insurgency, which threatening to spread into other parts of the country, apart from the North.
He is also expected to tackle the growing revival of militancy in the South-South region of Nigeria, where Nigeria derives its main source of revenue....
Dasuki later fled to United States in 1995 after he was accused by the Abacha regime of being a party to a coup plot allegedly led by retired Col. Lawan Gwadabe.
On his return, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, appointed him as the managing director of the National Security and Printing Company at the behest of Babangida.
A director of Regency Alliance, an insurance company, Dasuki attended the Washington DC and George Washington University, where obtained a BA (Bachelor of Arts degree) in international Relations and MA (Master of Arts) in Security Policy Studies respectively.
He had his military training in several institutions in Nigeria and abroad including the Nigerian Army School of Artillery, Oklahoma, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth Kensas.
His major task as National Security Adviser to the President, is arrest the Boko Haram insurgency, which threatening to spread into other parts of the country, apart from the North.
He is also expected to tackle the growing revival of militancy in the South-South region of Nigeria, where Nigeria derives its main source of revenue....