Tag: Presidency

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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Presidency reveals alleged plot to ‘overthrow’ Buhari’s govt.

Aminu Imam

The Presidency has said that there is unimpeachable evidence showing that those it describes as some disruptive elements are now recruiting the leadership of some ethnic groups and politicians around the country intending to forcefully remove President Muhammadu Buhari from office. The Presidency, in a statement made available to newsmen by the President Spokesman, Garba Shehu, said that the said individuals are “convening some sort of conference, where a vote of no confidence would be passed on the President, thus throwing the land into further turmoil”. The Presidency was responding…

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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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Insecurity: Presidency reveals ‘shocking’ findings about Boko Haram, bandits’ sponsors

Aminu Imam

…Says “details will surprise many Nigerians” The Federal Government has made a shocking discovery of sponsors of Boko Haram and bandits, the Presidency has revealed. The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, who disclosed this during a television prigramme yesterday, restated the claim that a link between kidnapping for ransom, banditry and Boko Haram sponsorship had been established. He said these sponsors, include some Bureau de Change, (BDC), operators with contacts abroad. According to him, there is evidence that money is being sent from United Arab Emirates…

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Just In: 6 Super Tucano fighter jets to arrive Nigeria in July – Presidency

Aminu Imam

Six of the 12 Super Tucanos bought by Nigeria from the United States would arrive the country mid-July 2021, the presidency has said. The presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, who announced this on his official Facebook page today, said the remaining six will arrive shortly after that. “There are 14 Nigerian pilots currently training at Moody Air Force Base, in Georgia, USA”, he stated. “The Super Tucanos came off the production line in Jacksonville Florida and are now being equipped and flight tested. Nigerian pilots and maintenance personnel are training on…

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Presidency defends Kukah, says the Bishop is free to practise his faith, politics

Aminu Imam

The Presidency has risen in defense of the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, after accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of nepotism. Recall that Rev. Kukah, while delivering his Christmas message in Sokoto, had alleged that President Buhari’s acts of nepotism could have led to a coup if he was a non-northern Muslim, triggering many pro-government groups to tag the statement as a felony against the Nigeria State.  Condemning Kukah, a Sokoto-based Islamic group, Muslim Solidarity Forum, had described the cleric’s comments as anti-Islamic, demanding an unreserved apology from…

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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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South South Assembly Postponement: Presidency offers apology to governors, stakeholders

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Presidency says the absence of the federal government delegation at the planned meeting with governors and stakeholders of the South-South region was necessitated by Tuesday’s emergency security meeting summoned by President Muhammadu Buhari. According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday, the postponement was “certainly not out of disrespect’’. He said the delegation to the meeting, under the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, ministers and heads of security and intelligence agencies…

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