By Austin Obinna
Reasons have emerged on why the Director- General of the National Intelligence Agency, Alhaji Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, resigned from his position three days after his meeting with Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma.
National Newsblast Newspaper gathered that contrary to speculations making the rounds in some quarters, the real reason for which Abubakar tendered his letter of resignation was that he had over-stayed in the position and is older than the prescribed age for civil servants.
Abubakar who is seventy-one years old, was expected to be retired under the Muhammadu Buhari administration but was allowed to stay by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
That was why Abubakar who tendered his resignation letter on Friday 23rd, August 2024, told journalists in an interview that his prolonged stay was “A rarity in civil service”.