Asocio-cultural group under the aegis of the Northern Ethnic Groups Assembly (NEYGA), has raised the alarm over attempts by some elements to frame up the Chief of Staff to President, Femi Gbajabiamila in the ongoing Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation financial infractions.

The coalition said the plotters are attempting to link the Chief of Staff to the transactions carried out by the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu.

Edu is currently being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)

Recall that a leaked memo dated December 18, 2023, from the Office of Chief of Staff to the President revealed that President Bola Tinubu had approved N3 billion from the COVID-19 Palliative Fund for verification of the National Social Register.

Reacting to the leaked memo, NEYGA, in the statement in Abuja by its spokesperson, Ibrahim Dan-Musa, said the plotters are hawks within and outside the Presidential Villa, insisting that the “detractors have failed in their plot against the engine room of the Tinubu administration”.

According to the group, the latest memo that came out was just an attempt by some persons within and outside the Villa to tie Gbajabiamila to the Betta Edu investigation.

Noting that “this is the time for the government to settle down,” the coalition commended the president for suspending Edu.

The group queried how the Chief of Staff could assume the position of authority, advising politicians to learn tolerance instead of engaging in a direct campaign of calumny against the former House of Representatives Speaker, who had served several years without scandal.

The statement reads: “To say Gbaja is an authority in law and a professor in government procedures is not an overstatement.

“It is clear some people are still seeking the downfall of one of the best brains in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration, but they have failed.

“Someone who managed 360 elecjted representatives of the Federal House of Representatives for a solid four years without any blemish will not fall for a peanut. Detractors do not understand the quality and value of Femi Gbajabiamila.

“The Chief of Staff had crossed the bridge before it collapsed, so what they are pursuing is emptiness, the second day after the Market day!

“We, the concerned citizens for good governance, will soon expose all those behind the evil.

“It is now an open secret that they want the government of President Bola Tinubu to fail by trying to pull down the pillars of support behind him.

“The current Chief of Staff has not faced 20 percent of the attacks one of his predecessors, Abba Kyari, got over wrong allegations. President Tinubu’s verdict on his Chief of Staff’s integrity is known to the public.”