War No More? Abba Kyari, Oyo-Ita reconcile at FEC meeting

President Buhari; Vice President Osinbajo; Fmr Ag. SGF, Dr. Habibat Lawal; Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari; Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs WInifred Oyo-Ita during FEC Meeting of 9th Nov. 2017 at the Presidential Villa

The feuding duo of Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to the President and the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita appear to have put their past behind them.

The duo shared a joke during the Federal Executive Council meeting held at the Presidential Villa and presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria.

It would be recalled that President Buhari had invited the two senior members of his cabinets to the Presidential Villa following an heated argument between them.

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It was believed that the misunderstanding stemmed from the controversial reinstatement and posting of the embattled former chairman of the Pension Reforms Commission, Abdulrasheed Maina.

President Buhari; Vice President Osinbajo; Fmr Ag. SGF, Dr. Habibat Lawal; Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari; Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs WInifred Oyo-Ita and NSA Major General Babagana Monguno Rtd during FEC Meeting of 9th Nov. 2017 at the Presidential Villa.

A source at the meeting said Kyari accused Oyo-Ita of leaking the memo, which she wrote to the CoS on the reinstatement of Mr Abdulrasheed Maina into the Civil Service.

In the memo, which was exclusively published by The PUNCH on Tuesday, Oyo-Ita said that she warned the President against asking Maina to return to the civil service, saying doing so could affect the anti-corruption war of the Federal Government.

Oyo-Ita, it was gathered, also accused Kyari of being the brains behind the leakage.

The altercation occurred in the presence of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, John Odigie-Oyegun; service chiefs and ministers.

Saraki, Dogara, Oyegun and the service chiefs were present to witness the inauguration of the new Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, as well as the launching of the 2018 Armed Forces Remembrance emblem.