The spokesperson to former President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, today hit out at a columnist, Sonala Olumhense, over attacks on the immediate past ruler even after leaving office.
Shehu in a statement on X (formerly Twitter) said Olumhense who was dedicated to bashing Buhari for the eight years in office as president needs to get his facts right.
Shehu stated that as a student, he read Olumhense’s weekly column in the Guardian newspaper with relish, this was until he migrated to America with its gleaming malls and opulent high-rises and since then, things were never quite normal with his essays.
Shehu further said that in the latest column Olumhense wrote on Sunday to, as usual seek to delegitimize Buhari, he cited a report in an unrecognisable junk newspaper that once wrote an unsubstantiated article alleging the ownership of an Abuja estate.
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He pointed out that the columnist said since the report was unchallenged by the Presidency, it must be true but that no one who has an inkling of knowledge of the essential Buhari would have taken this report seriously.
According to Shehu, more is expected of someone as Sonala, very high on Journalistic ranks: provide the evidence. Facts are the stuff of good journalism.
He stated that the second thing the writer did to delegitimize was to dwell on the stolen funds from the Gloval Vaccine Alliance (GAVI), an incident that happened 2014-2015, uncovered and dealt with by the Buhari administration when it came into office in 2015.
Shehu also said that Olumhense is free to ask questions about some of these issues before using his column to make unfounded claims or criticisms against Buhari.
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