Former Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has prolonged his congratulations to President Bola Tinubu on his election as the brand new Chairman of the Financial Group of West African States, ECOWAS.
This was relayed in an official assertion by Mallam Garba Shehu, the spokesman for former President Muhammadu Buhari.
In response to a narrative revealed by a nationwide each day, Mallam Garba Shehu, the spokesperson for former President Muhammadu Buhari, clarified that the experiences claiming the previous President has fled the nation and is in exile are solely false.
Mallam Garba Shehu discredited the newspaper report claiming Buhari’s exile subsequent to the handover to President Tinubu, stressing that it lacked veracity. He urged media organizations to train professionalism and confirm data earlier than disseminating it.
Shehu confirmed that Buhari is in Daura, Katsina state, the place he’s together with his household.
In response to him, ‘For deceptive the in any other case credible newspaper to falsely report on their entrance web page that former President Muhammadu Buhari has ‘fled’ and on ‘exile’ when he’s at present at dwelling with household in Daura, Katsina State, BusinessDay newspaper ought to sack their reporter who didn’t do the job of checking his info.’
‘BusinessDay ought to assume 10 instances earlier than operating any data from the actual reporter and confirm it earlier than believing him. Each platform has instruments to confirm any data and we don’t anticipate something much less from BusinessDay.’
‘If they’d browsed by means of completely different sources, they are going to have seen experiences of the previous President having come again dwelling and having fun with the corporate of his household.’
‘A single faux information in a newspaper has the potential to destroy a status constructed on years of arduous work.’
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Shehu within the assertion stated: ‘Former President Muhammadu Buhari congratulates President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his emergence because the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Authorities of the Financial Group of West African States, ECOWAS.’
The previous Nigerian chief stated ‘West Africans have entrusted our new chief with an infinite duty, and will probably be our job as residents to assist him to not allow them to down.’
‘I pray the Almighty will make his tenure as Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Authorities see to the restoration of ECOWAS because the bastion of democracy, good governance and a pacesetter in preventing terrorism and local weather change on the continent.
President Tinubu’s election because the Chairman of ECOWAS came about throughout the 63rd Peculiar Session of the regional bloc held within the capital of Guinea-Bissau, Bissau.
