Aggrieved staff members affected in the recent redeployment of security operatives and Civil Servants in the State House, Abuja, have dubbed the exercise ‘lopsided’ and a subtle ploy by ‘some people’ to populate the Presidential Villa with only northern workers.

Those who bared their minds on the issue alleged that the exercise, laced with ethnic colouration, was a plan to pave way for a massive deployment of personnel from a certain region of the country to populate the security structure in the villa.

While the transfer “was skewed in favour of some elements from their side, who were retained within safe areas,” a source told The Guardian at the weekend that the exercise carried most operatives from other parts of Nigeria to crisis prone areas of the North. (The Guardian)