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| Aisha Buhari |
Following allegation by the Ekiti state governor, Mr. Ayo
Fayose, linking President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, to the United States
Congressman William Jefferson’s bribery scandal, the Presidency has described
the allegation as shameless and blatant distortion of facts.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and
Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, in a statement, described the governor as a man
“childishly obsessed with the desire to grab the headlines and insulting people
at will because of his incurably boorish instincts.”
Shehu said the Presidency chose to respond to Fayose for the
sake of innocent Nigerians who might be
misled by his “shameless and blatant
distortion of facts.”
He challenged Fayose to tell Nigerians if the so-called
Aisha, whose pictures he proudly, but ignorantly shared, was the same Aisha
married to Buhari, or if the Aisha of his “idle imagination” had any
relationship by blood or any relationship in whatever form, with Buhari’s wife.
He explained that common names alone were not enough to
automatically link innocent people to crimes or scandals, especially in an era
of identity theft.
Shehu added that free speech did not entitle Fayose to
falsely accuse innocent people of crimes they knew nothing about.
He warned the governor that Aisha Buhari was entitled to
protect her reputation from being recklessly maligned, adding that political
opposition was not a licence to attack people’s reputation brazenly without
legal consequences.
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