Browsing: Mallam Garba Shehu

When the fuss came that the media handlers of the President were transmitting at best third hand information to the public, it did not bother me as much as it did some people, particularly, journalists. The discretion to have anyone with him at a given time was that of the President, and there was nothing anybody could do about it

Shehu said this in Abuja at an interactive session organised by the Citizens Support for Good Governance in Nigeria for youths

Only very few media practitioners in Nigeria may not have encountered the Mallam in his unusual, unassuming mien and in his exemplary openness even to very junior cadre in the profession

He said the ordinary Nigerians are the backbone of Buhari’s mandate and the only reason he ran for the office is to protect them against the rapacious merchants of corruption, who have held Nigeria back for decades

Mallam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, made this known in a statement in Abuja

But the Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu told The Eagle Online that the Director had not been sacked

Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, said in a statement that Buhari made his position known when he received the leadership of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja

‘Also, records from the Army show the rescue of no fewer than 15,000 captives, mostly women and children, from the terrorists from February to date. In addition, dozens of communities that were previously under the control of the terrorists have been liberated, allowing thousands of previously displaced citizens to return home and resume their normal lives’

This followed the restoration of the computers that crashed as the salaries were about being paid last month

This led to an alarm being sounded by the APC on the government in power seeking to use its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, to witch hunt his own party chieftains

The APCPCO said in a statement signed by its Director of Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, that claims by Governor Aliyu that the presidential candidate of the APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, signed a single tenure pact is a figment of his imagination

In a reaction by the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, the APC described the PDP statement as amounting to questions about the purpose of the continued being of Nigeria as a single entity

This was contained in a statement tagged: “Special message to Nigerian women,” released in Abuja and signed by Malam Garba Shehu, in commemoration of the International Women’s Day

In a signed statement in Abuja on Thursday, Mallam Garba Shehu, APCPCO’s Director of Media and Publicity, said an advertorial placed by the “Forum for Economic Progress”, claiming that “non-oil export has increased by 300% and that Cocoa had brought revenue of over $2 billion in the last two years,” is anything but “blatant lies and bandied poor spin-doctoring by a dying PDP regime clawing to undesirable straws”

The Campaign therefore challenged the NBC to make good its threat to wield the big stick against erring broadcast stations by applying its Code to all industry players across board without fear or favour

This was contained in a statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APCPCO, Mallam Garba Shehu, on Wednesday

A statement from the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the campaign and signed by Mallam Garba Shehu, said it is surprising why the President has turned worship centres into platforms for making official statements or announcing government policies

The APCPCO said in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja that it is not only insulting for Dame Jonathan to describe the presidential candidate of the APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, as “brain-dead”, it is also demeaning of her status as the First Lady

In a press statement on Tuesday in Abuja, signed by its Director of Media and Publicity of its presidential campaign, Malam Garba Shehu, the APC said it was bemused by the allegations by the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, that the opposition is behind the current biting fuel scarcity in the country

Fani-Kayode, who was reacting on Saturday to an allegation by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mallam Garba Shehu, that the President Goodluck Jonathan administration is planning to use the Aviation Ministry to ground the private jets belonging to senior members of the APC and frustrate the party’s campaign, said it was interesting that APC has admitted, for the first time, that their leaders own private jets