Garba Shehu, senior special
assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, has asked
supporters of the president to ignore the attacks Senate President Bukola
Saraki is directing at Buhari.
Saraki, a presidential aspirant
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been very critical of Buhari in
recent times.
Two days ago, he told some PDP
delegates that most world leaders cut short their stay in Nigeria after
realising that Buhari lacks intellectual capacity.
But Shehu wondered why the senate
president had become so desperate that he had forgotten the encomiums he
showered on the president before he left the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Shehu said Saraki’s comments have
shown that he is very dangerous and can go any length to promote his personal
interests.
Below is Shehu’s statement:
The Presidency wishes to react
the crude speeches hitting the news from Senator Bukola Saraki who recently
joined the Peoples Democratic Party with the sole ambition of running as the
president of Nigeria.
In response the condemnable and
extremely derogatory speeches by the PDP aspirant, we urge all Buhari
supporters to display restraint in language and conduct and to always put
across their points of view in a decent language.
Throughout his political career,
Senator Saraki has shown that he is a very dangerous person who can go any
length to promote his personal interests. The language of his campaign is such
that cannot be used against a domestic help.
Is he just knowing that the
President lacked vision? This is someone that the Senator had worked with very
closely for more than three years. Amazingly, he never said all that he is now
saying against him. Rather, his word for and on the President were always
respectful and reassuring. That’s the man he called “My Father,” about him
“there is no cause for alarm…a President who is healthy, witty and himself.”
What then changed, all of a sudden?
Is he saying these blatantly
false and crude things against the President because he is gunning for the same
office? Could it be that he is targeting President Buhari because the party he
just joined does not have any real issues to highlight?
Be that as it may, our appeal to
our supporters is to ignore Saraki and any such politicians bent on lowering
the quality of political discourse. Let them drown in their own waters.
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