Author: Garba Shehu

A press statement signed by Director of Media and Publicity of the, Mallam Garba Shehu, on Thursday said it was laughable the PDP would not let go of the educational qualifications of the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, even when the matter has been exhaustively laid to rest

A statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC presidential campaign organisation, Mallam Garba Shehu, said the President should not sweep the outcome of the probe panel under the carpet, as was the case in previous corruption allegations under his administration

A statement from the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the APC presidential campaign on Tuesday said the denial of PDP of the advertorial signed by Fayose by Femi Fani-Kayode is “merely a case of a master dissociating himself from the errand boy after the message had backfired”

Rather, the organization says the administration is responsible for serious shortcomings in the sector and blames the President for presiding over the greatest decline ever known in the education sector so far in the country’s history

Mallam Garba Shehu, the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign, said in a statement in Abuja on Monday that “the Jonathan-led PDP government is beginning to listen to public outcry about bad governance, extortion and exploitation of the Nigerian masses in the oil sector where billions of naira are daily being ripped off the pockets of the common men and women through inaccurate pump prices of petrol, diesel and kerosene, despite the dwindling world market prices of these products”

A statement by the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the campaign and signed by Mallam Garba Shehu, said the Jonathan government got it wrong on the curious silence over the botched deal

The APC Campaign said this action by the Peoples Democratic Party is in violation of Part 2 Section 6 (2) of the National Orientation Agency Act, which expressly prescribes that the Director General of NOA should be “non-partisan

The campaign, however, said in a statement signed by Mallam Garba Shehu, the Director of Media and Publicity, that the same level of compassion and empathy should be shown to Nigerians who have suffered similar tragedies at home
Shehu said in the statement: “Nothing less should be expected of any leader worthy of the name

A statement by the APC Campaign in Abuja on Friday recalled that President Jonathan had earlier urged that parties and candidates dwell on issues agitating the minds of Nigerians and how these can be solved

Reports said it was Nigeria which made the difference in the resolution failing to pass, as it had been expected. Our country had resolved to vote in favour but then decided a few hours to the vote to abstain

If Mr. President doesn’t like what is in the mirror, he should first of all listen to the cries of his people who are suffering in silence

Asked whether the Presidential Declaration Committee would scale down the elaborate ceremonies planned for the next day, following the extremely painful and worrisome killing of 50 children in a science school in Yobe State, the Chairman of the Publicity Committee for President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration, Senator Aniete Okon, said to do so was to give in to the terrorists

I don’t hear, there is no way by which the body can react to danger. Brain said I am the processor of all information, without me doing my work, the coordination of the body will be in disarray. The hands said: wait-a-minute, if I don’t move things, including food into the mouth, how would energy be supplied to the other parts?

The Senate is the arm which initially entered this amendment providing for immunity, in a way technically done, proposing that in the course of their law-making functions, the parliamentarians should be immune from prosecution

I have argued with the deaf on this page on the need for dialogue as the way of resolving the crisis of security in the North East. Government initially wasn’t interested

This is supposed to provide an opportunity for the nations of the world, including this country to reflect on the conditions of unemployment and poverty of millions of rural women

Nowadays, Abuja’s woes remain before, during and after the rains

Recent successes by the Nigerian Military against the raging insurgency in the North-East seem to inspire confidence that the nation can, after all halt the loss life of innocent persons and of territory to a needlessly protracted conflict

The President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s Meetings to stem the growing tide of insurgency with Idris Derby, Chad’s President should give Nigerians something to cheer about.

Given this situation, the private hospitals have offered succour to families who can afford to pay their often exorbitant charges. The well-off get treated with top-notch medical practices and medicines and the poor Nigerians gets far less or no care at all