The presidency has denied reports that national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was under security watch over alleged plots against President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement on Saturday, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, dismissed the newspaper reports as “acts of pure mischief.”
According to Shehu, who further described the reports as false and baseless, nothing could be farther from the truth, as the security chiefs assured the presidency that Tinubu was not under any form of watch whatsoever.
“According to the perverted logic of the newspaper, the respected leader of the APC is into a plot against the leader of the country,” Shehu stated. “The Presidency is unaware of any such plot against the President.”
“I got on the telephone a short while ago with Gen. Babagana Munguno (retd.), the National Security Adviser, and the Director General of the SSS, Lawal Daura, who both dismissed the published reports as acts of pure mischief.
“They are not aware of the Asiwaju being on any kind of watch,” he said.
Furthermore, the presidency accused the offending media houses of attempting to create a rift between the President and Asiwaju Tinubu.
“It would appear that a competition is on between two or three newspaper establishments on how best to breach the excellent relationship between the pillars of our party and government.
“So far, they have not made a headway and there is no indication that they will succeed in the future.
“It suffices to say that such reports, written without fairness and balance can only take away from whatever is left of the credibility of these newspapers.
The presidency advised the public against paying to such reports.
“The general public is hereby advised to ignore them on these reports,” Shehu stressed.
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