After Winning Elections, Buhari Abandoned Us – Bodyguards Cry Out

Speaking to Journalists, spokespersons of the group, Olabiyi Balogun, Audu Odemeho, Abdullahi Hassan and Zubairu Idris, lamented that those who did not work for the victory of Buhari were now reaping from where they did not sow.

The bodyguards alleged that they have been rejected by those they referred to as “cabals in the government.”

His words: “Right now, we need Mr. President to appreciate our hard work for him. We need Mr. President to recognize the fact that we have lost everything because we championed the change agenda.

Over 100 personnel of Presidential Bodyguards were said to have been removed from the security and protocol departments and the Buhari Support Organisation.

The aggrieved group said, ”Definitely, it is not just our exclusion that is a security threat to the country. Anything that will deny any man his dues and legitimate rights can be concluded to mean a security threat because when you don’t get your dues and what is rightly due for you, then you are opened to a lot of temptations. So, we are indeed a security threat.

According to them, apart from the N20, 000 they got on two occasions in January and February 2015, “we had never and were never given anything.”

The group believed that after working tirelessly and relentlessly, the president ought to have recognized the sacrifices they made.

“During the electioneering campaign, we served the current President, Muhammadu Buhari, as his personal bodyguards. That was who we were and that is what we are till now.

“One would have expected that having worked hard tirelessly and relentlessly for the President to assume the office he had desired all these years, the people that were in the forefront deserved to be recognized, compensated and remunerated, considering the volume of work and gravity of the sacrifices we had to make,” the group added.