Buhari Is The President Of All Nigerians - Presidency

The presidency has denied the reports that President Muhammadu Buhari expressed anti-Igbo comments in a recent interview to the BBC Hausa Service.

Garba Shehu, the presidential spokesperson, released a statement, noting that the pirate radio Biafra, which was allegedly closed by the government two days ago, lied against the president.

Meanwhile, the recent news say that the radio station keeps broadcasting in the southern part of Nigeria.

The presidency said that Radio Biafra’s message was “completely false, malicious, and slanderous.”

Shehu added that “the voice being ascribed to President Buhari in the recording repeatedly played back by the pirate radio station is definitely not the President’s and the claim that the station got the recording from a BBC interview is totally untrue.”

“The BBC Hausa Service Editor, Mr. Mansor Liman has distanced the BBC from the false interview clip being ascribed by the pirate radio station to President Buhari.”

Moreover, according to the statement, President Buhari has not had any interview with the BBC’s Hausa Service since his assumption of office as supposed by the agents of disunity behind the pirate radio station’s inflammatory and divisive broadcasts.

“The last interview he had with the BBC Hausa Service, lasting not more than five minutes, was on the day he was declared winner and given his certificate of return as President-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission,” the presidential aide said.

Shehu added that President Buhari is the President of all Nigerians and would continue to treat all residents on the basis of fairness, equality and equity.

“Nigerians should therefore ignore all propaganda designed to sow seeds of discord among them and promote a separatist agenda against national unity, solidarity and progress,” the statement concluded.