Garba Shehu and Aisha Buhari-THREAD
Many people who have followed my writing know that Malam Garba Shehu was my journalism teacher at Bayero University for whom I still have a lot of respect in spite of our political differences. However, I had said in the past, like Aisha Buhari
Many people who have followed my writing know that Malam Garba Shehu was my journalism teacher at Bayero University for whom I still have a lot of respect in spite of our political differences. However, I had said in the past, like Aisha Buhari
just confirmed today, that neither he nor Femi Adesina have any direct contact with Buhari. In my August 26, 2017 column titled "Garba Shehu, Presidential Villa Rodents and Bad PR," (farooqkperogi.com/2017/08/garba-…) I wrote the following, which Aisha just confirmed: "Most of the times,
it’s actually influential people connected—or thought to be connected—to the president who dictate what the presidential media team says to the public.
"I recall an incident in late 2015 that left me in no doubt that the president’s media team members don’t enjoy the respect
"I recall an incident in late 2015 that left me in no doubt that the president’s media team members don’t enjoy the respect
usually accorded to presidential spokespeople. I was having an argument with someone close to the Buhari presidency over something, and he suddenly said, 'I will tell the president’s media team to issue a statement to clarify this.' A few hours later, a statement was issued
expressing the exact sentiments of my interlocutor who isn’t even officially a part of the government. That blew me away.
"So, basically, the presidential spokespeople are mere errand boys of Buhari’s shadowy surrogates & a motley crowd of official, semi-official, & unofficial
"So, basically, the presidential spokespeople are mere errand boys of Buhari’s shadowy surrogates & a motley crowd of official, semi-official, & unofficial
power brokers who pull the levers of power in the presidency.
"No public relations person, however smart he might be, can function optimally in the kind of politically toxic and factious environment that the Buhari presidency exemplifies."
The truth is that Buhari has dementia
"No public relations person, however smart he might be, can function optimally in the kind of politically toxic and factious environment that the Buhari presidency exemplifies."
The truth is that Buhari has dementia
and doesn't know his left from his right. The real people ruling Nigeria now are Abba Kyari and Mamman Daura whom I've learned are no longer as chummy as they used to be. I warned Nigerians in the run-up to the 2019 election that f they voted APC, they were voting Mamman Daura
& Abba Kyari, not Buhari who's barely aware of his own existence. Pple who thought I was just being mischievous are coming to terms with what I said. Aisha won't honestly reveal Buhari's state of health, but she's railing against sb who takes orders from sb who holds d real power
