Africa Press-Nigeria:
President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to comments, articles and newspaper editorial, which accused him of not being in control of his administration.
Garba Shehu, his senior special assistant on media, in a statement on Sunday, said the views were the language of the opposition.
He labeled them people who ruined the country during their 16 years of corruption on an industrial scale.
Shehu said influencers, celebrated columnists and editorial comments, do no more than endorse the opposition’s wrong and fallacious position that the president is not in charge of his government.
He told the authors that their criticisms are evidence of the right to freedom of expression prevailing in Nigeria.
Whether it is Ibrahim Magu, Godswill Akpabio, NDDC, NSITF or others, Nigerians are bound to write letters, opinion columns, editorials and even stage lawful protests, Shehu said.
He noted that detractors pick up isolated issues like the ones in the EFCC, NDDC, and incidents of crime and corruption which have been with the country for years.
Shehu suggested that the opinions were orchestrated and that Buhari was being attacked because his administration decided to pursue cases of suspected wrongdoing in the anti-corruption agency, pension funds, NDDC and other agencies.
