For the past four days now there had been rift between the Federal Government and Radio Biafra according to Premium Times exclusive report. If you missed the first two stories about the drama please click here and here. Well as against the radio's views that President Buhari is disparaging the igbos, the president has come out to say that these allegations are false. Read the report as publised by Premium Times below:
President Muhammadu Buhari has denied expressing anti-Igbo sentiments as alleged by the propaganda channel, Radio Biafra.
President Muhammadu Buhari has denied expressing anti-Igbo sentiments as alleged by the propaganda channel, Radio Biafra.
The claim by the radio that the president disparaged the Igbo
ethnic group in a BBC Hausa interview, is completely false, malicious and
slanderous, presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said Wednesday.
Mr. Shehu said the voice being ascribed to President Buhari in
the recording, repeatedly played back by the pirate station, is definitely not
the president’s.
“No one should be deceived by the pirate radio station’s hate
propaganda against the president,” Mr. Shehu said in a statement on Wednesday.
The comments were the Nigerian presidency’s first official
response to the controversy generated by the underground channel’s broadcast.
The government said on Tuesday the station had been taken off
the airwaves, a claim that turned out false.
Mr. Buhari said he has not granted an interview to the BBC since
March 31 when he was declared winner of the presidential election, and denied
expressing anti-Igbo sentiments in that interview.
“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
statement by Mr. Shehu said.
“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.”
Mr. Shehu said the BBC Hausa Service Editor, Mansor Liman, has
also dissociated the BBC from the 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,” Mr. Shehu said.
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