Following the furore generated after it was learnt that the African Independent Television was barred from covering his activities, the president-elect of Nigeria, General Muhammadu Buhari, has instructed all his staff, including the personnel attached directly to him, to steer clear of all dealings with the media, and leave all media affairs to his official media team.
A statement signed by the director of media and publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Mallam Garba Shehu, yesterday in Abuja, said Buhari aligned himself with the pronouncement of his party, the All Progressives Congress, which had earlier expressed disagreement with Tuesday’s barring of the Africa Independent Television (AIT) from covering his official engagements.
“I would like everyone to henceforth stay within his/her defined area of responsibility,” General Buhari said.
The president-elect added that his media team should be left to deal with their media colleagues as they best knew how.
According to the statement, General Buhari was neither consulted nor informed about the AIT barring, and only became aware of the matter after the public uproar it generated.
“The time of Change has come,” he said, “and we must avoid making the same mistakes that the outgoing government made.”
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