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Doyin Okupe blames President’s media team for Hausa broadcast

The former presidential aide said the President’s media team was not properly coordinated.

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Okupe also said he does not believe that Buhari’s broadcast was a part of a BBC Hausa service interview.

Okupe also said “I have pondered a while on the supposed message to Nigerians in Hausa language by President Buhari. I believe the voice is the voice of PMB and not any phoney laboratory creation.

“I also believe strongly that PMB never intended the statement to be used as a direct message to nation. It’s one of two possibilities

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“The media handlers in desperation to dispel unwarranted rumours of the President’s ‘death’ or extreme incapacitation, arranged for a correspondent of BBC Hausa service to record a message for their station to be related to their listeners.

“The claim that it was an interview cannot be correct. An interview is a question and answer session not a monologue. What question was PMB answering when he said “I Muhammadu Buhari?”

“The other possibility which I consider to be more probable is that someone, maybe Garba Shehu, requested a message from PMB and because he was talking with an aide who is a northerner, he spoke to him in Hausa expecting that this will naturally be translated to English and issued out officially from the Presidency.

“Thereafter, before the official process could be concluded someone had forwarded an advance copy to BBC Hausa service, and journalists being who they are with insatiable desire for scoops and breaking news, released it instant for maximum effects.

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“No matter how we look at it, sheer desperation has caused someone to commit a near fatal Public Relation disaster. Alas, the President has suffered an incalculable damage for that but I am sure the handlers have learnt yet another painful lesson,” he added.

A cross-section of Nigerians have expressed their displeasure over the Hausa broadcast.

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