“You Extended CG Customs Tenure To Stop DCG Nwafor From Top Job” – Buhari’s Ex Aide, Onochie, Slams Tinubu

By Charles Igbo

A former Aide of late  President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie,  has tackled President Tinubu for extending the tenure of the Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, by one year.

Onochie said the extension was done with an ulterior motive. She said it was to prevent the next in rank,  DCG BU Nwafor from ascending the top position.

Recall that on Thursday, July 30, President Tinubu, in a release signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, extended Adeniyi’s tenure by one year.

Adeniyi was billed to retire in August, 2025, after 35 years in Service, having joined the Customs and Excise in August 1990. But President Tinubu extended his tenure, to, according to him, complete the good job he had started. Adeniyi was appointed to the position by Tinubu.

But Onochie, a former Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), slammed Tinubu for, by the extention, deliberately prevented Nwafor, a woman, native of Anambra State, from getting the top job.

DCG Nwafor is billed for retirement from Service in October 2026 when she will be 60 years old.

In a post on X, Onochie reeled out a number of reasons why Tinubu prevented Nwafor from the position. They include her gender, her State of origin, her having no husband or boyfriend in the Presidential  Villa, no Governor’s backing, and more.

Here’s Onochie’s post in which she listed why Nwafor was pushed aside.

“Under Pres. @officialABAT, nothing is in her favour.

1. She’s a woman
2. She has no husband in the villa
3. She has no boyfriend in the Villa
4. She has no brother in the Villa
5. She Is Not from Bourdillon
6. No Governor’s backing
7. SHE IS FROM ANAMBRA

This is Tinubu’s Nigeria.”