The Presidency has reacted to claims of alleged posturing by President Muhammadu Buhari, against the Igbo people of Nigeria as broadcast by a pirate radio station.
The radio station had endlessly played a voice, ascribing it to Buhari and claiming it was dubbed from the BBC Hausa Service, but one of the president’s spokesmen, Mallam Garba Shehu has described the allegation as completely false, malicious and slanderous.
Shehu denied that the voice was that of Buhari and also said it was a lie that the pirate station got the voice from the BBC as it was just a 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,” the statement from Shehu said while urging Nigerians to ignore all propaganda designed to sow seeds of discord among them and promote a separatist agenda against national unity, solidarity and progress.
