DSS replaces Tinubu’s Chief Security Officer

The Department of State Service (DSS) has removed Adegboyega Fasasi as Chief Security Officer (CSO) to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

He was replaced with Rasheed Atanda Lawal, a Deputy Director.

As at the time of filing this report, details are still sketchy on why Fasasi was removed.

Meanwhile, sources familiar with the development said the Director-General of DSS, Tosin Ajayi, had requested President Tinubu to approve the release of Fasasi from serving as CSO so he could proceed on a strategic training course.

“The angle I want us to look at it from is the fact that such exercise as this ‘change of guards’ usually happens when the DSS gets a new DG. You know they deal strictly with intelligence and operate in secrecy; the new DG will always prefer to have his trusted men on critical beats, the Presidency and the office of the CSO to the President being number one on that list,” the source told the Nation.

In the meantime, the Presidency has yet to react to the development.