The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Saturday said the statement credited to the President’s nephew, Mamman Daura, was his personal opinion.
Shehu said this in a statement titled “Malam Mamman’s views are his own, and he has said so -Presidency.”Hausa Service said competence should be considered for the next President in 2023 rather than zoning.
The statement said, “We have received numerous requests for comments on the interview granted by Malam Mamman Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, to the BBC Hausa Service. “At age 80, and having served as editor and managing director of one of this country’s most influential newspapers, the New Nigerian, certainly, Malam Mamman qualifies as an elder statesman with a national duty to hold perspectives and disseminate them as guaranteed under our constitution and laws of the land. He does not need the permission or clearance of anyone to exercise this right.
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