STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE
CLAIM THAT PRESIDENT BUHARI EXPRESSED
ANTI-IGBO SENTIMENTS IN BBC INTERVIEW COMPLETELY FALSE AND MALICIOUS
The claim by a pirate radio station that
President Muhammadu Buhari expressed anti-Igbo sentiments in a recent interview
with the BBC Hausa Service is completely false, malicious and slanderous.
The voice being ascribed to President
Buhari in the recording repeatedly played back by the pirate radio station is
definitely not the President's and the claim that the station got the recording
from a BBC interview is totally untrue.
No one should be deceived by the pirate
radio station's hate propaganda against the President.
President Buhari has not had any interview
with the BBC's Hausa Service since his assumption of office as
alleged by the agents of disunity behind the pirate radio station's
inflammatory and divisive broadcasts.
The last interview he had with the BBC
Hausa Service, lasting not more than five minutes, was on the day he was
declared winner and given his certificate of return as President-elect by the
Independent National Electoral Commission.
Thankfully, the BBC Hausa Service Editor,
Mr. Mansor Liman has distanced the BBC from the false interview clip being
ascribed by the pirate radio station to President Buhari.
President Buhari is the President of all
Nigerians and will continue to treat all citizens on the basis of fairness,
equality and equity.
Nigerians should therefore ignore all
propaganda designed to sow seeds of discord among them and promote a separatist
agenda against national unity, solidarity and progress.
GARBA SHEHU
Senior Special Assistant to the President,
(Media and Publicity)
July 15, 2015
Source: SaharaReporters
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