The Presidency has denied that President Muhammadu Buhari summoned his Chief of Staff Abba Kyari and Head of Service Winifred Oyo-Ita over their reported clash at the Presidential Villa Wednesday.
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The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, at a meeting with State House reporters Friday also described reports of the clash by Kyari and Oyo-Ita as a conjecture.
“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,” the presidential spokesman said.
According to him, “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,” he said.
Shehu also stated: “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.”
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