President Muhammadu Buhari
The
Presidency, on Wednesday, said there was no truth in a claim by a
pirate radio station that President Muhammadu Buhari expressed anti-Igbo
sentiments in a recent interview with the BBC Hausa Service.
The Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, in a statement,
described the claim as “completely false, malicious and slanderous.”
Shehu said the voice ascribed to Buhari
in the recording, repeatedly played by the pirate radio station, was not
that of the President.
He added that the claim that the station got the recording from a BBC interview was totally untrue.
He said that no one should be deceived by the pirate radio station’s hate propaganda against the President.
The statement read in part, “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 broadcast.
“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 the
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.”
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