Nigeria’s Presidency run from ‘outside’, Tinubu caged in Aso Rock – Sen Yari

Senator Abdulaziz Yari, representing Zamfara West, has stirred controversy with claims that Nigeria’s presidency is no longer being run from the Presidential Villa.

Speaking on Wednesday at the One Nigeria Project Conference in Abuja, the former Zamfara State governor alleged that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is effectively “caged” within the Villa, while real power is being exercised from outside.

Yari also dismissed expectations of foreign intervention in Nigeria’s challenges, declaring that United States President, Donald Trump, cannot help Nigeria’s situation.

Yari said, “This country called Nigeria, America says their own country is God’s own country but this country called Nigeria is more of God’s own country than any other.

“This is because so many havoc initiated by we ourselves but we need to come together.

“Before 1999 some issues came up but the country remained. Look at June 12, everybody thought the country will go away but God that made the country in 1914 together, that God is in charge and would remain in charge.

“So anybody thinking otherwise shouldn’t waste his time because Nigeria has come to stay as a nation.

“Don’t call Trump, it’s the business of Nigerians, Trump has no business in Nigeria. He can’t solve the problem of Nigeria, the problem of Nigeria can be solved by Nigerians.

“I was with the President in the night and I told him that I would be here and if he has time, he should watch what we are doing and I think this organization should be given the support.

“The problem is the elite, you have people abusing Tinubu, you are abusing him because you know the problem more than the truth.

“Those close to the Presidency know that the Presidency is being run from outside the Villa than inside the Villa. We already have the President caged there, we locked him but we do the operations. So why not think of the trust you are given?”