Buhari’s alleged shyness around women: THISDAY deletes article

Buhari’s alleged shyness around women: THISDAY deletes article

Friday, October 23, 2015 2:42 pm


THISDAY newspaper certainly  felt embarrassed this morning after it published a story alleging that President Buhari did not appoint many women into his cabinet because he is shy around women.

The story was attributed to a Gideon Samani, described as a “senior special assistant, political matters” to President Buhari. Both the story and the story teller have now been debunked as false by the presidency.

We can confirm that the newspaper has done the ‘needful’ by deleting the article from the web site.

This link below leads to an empty page.           http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/presidential-aide-buhari-is-shy-around-the-opposite-sex/223525/

Special adviser media and publicity, Femi Adesina said today that the statement made by  Samani, was  totally fallacious.

“The assertion by the alleged Presidential Aide that President Buhari is “very shy dealing with the opposite sex” because “he has been interacting mostly with men,” was received by the President with  shock and consternation.

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“For one thing, there is no Senior Special Assistant, Political Matters, in the office of the President for now and Mr. Samani who was said to have spoken as the Representative of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation at a public function yesterday, is not an aide of the President.

“Mr Samani is certainly not an official spokesman of the President. Therefore, he could not have spoken on behalf of President Buhari, who is the President of all Nigerians, men and women alike.

“President Buhari has a wife,  many daughters and female relatives whom he loves dearly. He also had a mother that he adored. How then could he be shy in the company of women, to the point of allegedly not appointing them into public offices, on account of not being comfortable in their company?

“Nigerian women can be assured that the President holds them in the highest esteem and will always give  them due consideration in the discharge of his official responsibilities.

“The statements attributed to Mr Samani are untrue and unauthorized. They should therefore be disregarded.”

 


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