The Presidency has maintained that there is no rift between President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari and the Head of Civil Services of the Federation, HoS, Winifred Oyo-Ita, following the leaked memo on ex-Pension boss, Abdulrasheed Maina.
This was stated by Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu during a short meeting with State House Correspondents, at the Presidential Villa.
He noted that it was impossible for the conversation between Kyari and Oyo-Ita to have been heard by any journalist, as the distance between the State House correspondents and the two government officials as they addressed the Vice President at Wednesday’s FEC meeting, would have made their conversation completely inaudible to journalists.
The Presidential aide also dismissed claim that the two government officials had been summoned by the President over the altercation between them.
Shehu said, “I am a journalist myself, and in journalism, you are not supposed to report anything other than the facts of what you heard or observed directly, or what you were told by a firsthand or authoritative eyewitness
“You cannot add two and two to make twenty-two and present it to the public as news.
“People can debate and argue over issues, but to suggest that there was a feud, a fight or a clash was to take matters beyond what they were.
“Top government officials of that calibre see the President on a regular basis. To suggest that they were summoned to see him as a result of a so-called feud is just a fabrication, a conclusion that is below the level of responsible journalism that we expect from our State House correspondents.”
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