Former President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, has explained why he alleged that rats invaded the Presidential Villa in 2017.
Shehu said he planted the story to distract the public from
Buhari’s ill-health and inability to resume his duties following his resumption
after a period of absence due to sickness.
The former Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity
to Buhari disclosed this in his just launched book, ‘According to the
President: Lessons from a Presidential Spokesperson’s Experience’.
In Chapter 10 of the book, titled, ‘Rats, Spin and All
That’, Shehu said an issue broke out after a fellow media aide, Bashir Ahmad,
announced that Buhari has returned to Nigeria and would be working from home.
Shehu said: “With reporters wanting to know more, the number
of calls increased, with some, including the BBC Hausa, interrogating me on the
type of rats we had in the Villa that could eat wire cables.
“To get them (journalists) off my back, I referred them to
the strange rats that invaded the country in the 1980s during the rice armada
that came here aboard ships bringing the commodity from Southeast Asia.
“At a later meeting, the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed and Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo asked me why I had toed that
line of story.
“I said to them that the choice I made was deliberate: I
wanted the discussion to shift, to move to any other issue besides the
president’s health and his ability to continue in office as the leader of the
country. In my view, that spin succeeded. Both of them disagreed, saying that
this was well off the mark.”
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Am not surprised.Because that's why your presidency keeps failing in governance and can never succeed or be trusted. Every day you tell the masses lies and expect us to believe the nonsense. We know and understand that you are all mostly deceivers and liars in that presidency but on a very good day, you will all regret it and face the full wrath of the law. Don't say we did not warn you all because it must surely happen.
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