Tag: Garba Shehu

Burning INEC offices, police stations won’t stop 2023 elections – Presidency

Aminu Imam

…As INEC boss says it recorded 11 attacks on its facilities in 2021, 41 within 2yrs The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu,has stated that his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari is not interested in running for a third term in 2023. The Presidential aide stated this yesterday while featuring on a TV programme. Shehu also said the burning of police stations and offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), won’t stop the 2023 general elections. He said, “It is very disturbing that INEC…

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Mbaka admits discussing contract with Buhari

Aminu Imam

The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry (AMEN), Father Ejike Mbaka, has admitted meeting President Muhammadu Buhari with three persons over a contract that has become controversial. Although the Catholic priest denied meeting the president for any personal gain, he admitted during his sermon on Sunday that the deal in question was a “contract of securing the country”. He also said the meeting was during Buhari’s first term when he went to “hand over” three white men he never knew but who said “they had the platform to end insecurity…

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“Mbaka wanted contracts for supporting Buhari but was rebuffed”, Garba Shehu reveals

Aminu Imam

The Presidency yesterday said the Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry (AMEN), Father Ejike Mbaka, once brought three contractors to President Muhammadu Buhari but was rebuffed. This, according to the presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, was behind Mbaka’s call on Buhari to resign over the worsening insecurity in the country. In a statement released yesterday, titled: “Father Mbaka is everything apart form what he claims to be”, Shehu said an “outsider distilling the avalanche of verbiage will be surprised that after supporting the President two times to win the Presidency, Father…

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“Nobody can intimidate, bully Buhari to break Nigeria”, Says Garba Shehu

Aminu Imam

The Presidency says secession agitators in the southern part of the country cannot intimidate President Muhamadu Buhari to dance to their tunes. The Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, said this at the media interactive session of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Professional Forum. It also stated that the President will not pay those demanding dissolution of the country in order to end their agitations. According to the Presidency, calls for secession have always been used to force the previous governments into paying agitators to…

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Corruption Perceptions Index: Garba Shehu blames Nigerians for poor ranking by Transparency International

Ishaku Yohanna

…Says report a reflection of corruption by Nigerians and not by Buhari administration By Ishaku Yohanna Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media & Publicity, Garba Shehu, says the report by Transparency International (TI) that ranked Nigeria low was an indictment of Nigerians and not President Buhari or his administration. The Presidential spokesman said this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Monday while reacting to the poor ranking on Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index in which Nigeria scored 25 out of 100 and was named the…

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Garba Shehu apologises for giving inaccurate figure on Katsina schoolboys

Aminu Imam

Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, yesterday apologised to Nigerians for providing misleading information on the number of boys kidnapped in Government Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State last weekend. 334 schoolboys kidnapped by bandits in the school premises were freed on Thursday and were received by the State governor, Aminu Bello Masari yesterday.  Recall that following the breaking of the news of the abduction last weekend, Shehu had announced that only 10 boys were kidnapped, explaining that the figure was not his own creation but given to him “by persons that should…

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Borno attack: Farmers killed didn’t get military clearance to go to the fields – Garba Shehu

Aminu Imam

Ø  ‘Villagers provide information to insurgents’, says Army   Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu has stated that farmers killed in Borno state did not get military clearance before visiting their farms. In an interview with the British broadcasting Corporation, (BBC) yesterday, Shehu said though the military is in “full control” of all parts of Borno, the farmers and residents ought to get clearance before visiting certain areas. Recall that a community, Zabarmari which is about 20 kilometres from Maiduguri was attacked by suspected Boko Haram members at the weekend which led to the…

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#EndSARS protesters gathering hoodlums to unleash mayhem in FCT, Lagos – Group alleges

Aminu Imam

MURIC warns against further protest  Promoters must face the law, says Garba Shehu  Some well-meaning Nigerians, under the aegis of March4Nigeria, say some purported #EndSARS protesters are mobilising hoodlums to wreak havoc in the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), and Lagos. Speaking at a press conference yesterday in Lagos, National Secretary, Comrade Onimisi Bello said funds for the exercise has already been laundered online using crypto-currencies.  According to the group, these extremist elements will re-launch violent uprisings under the guise that their members are being hounded. The March4Nigeria, however, condemned the…

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Nigeria not constructing rail line into Niger – Presidency

Ishaku Yohanna

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Thursday, said Nigeria was not building any rail line to Niger Republic. He said the plan was to construct the rail line up to the border Nigeria shares with the neighbouring country and not into the country itself. The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, had told State House correspondents on Wednesday that the Federal Executive Council approved $1.96billion for the construction of a rail line to link Kano, Dutse, Katsina and Maradi in Niger Republic.…

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Past administrations lacked courage to take action on subsidy removal – Presidency

Ishaku Yohanna

Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, says past administrations had failed to demonstrate the “right courage” to take recent decisions that led to hike in fuel price and electricity tariff among others. Garba Shehu stated these in a statement titled “History will be kinder to President Buhari than his critics are prepared to be.” Shehu was reacting to criticisms that trailed recent hike in fuel price and electricity tariff. He described the reforms that led to the hike in prices as “necessary and…

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