The
Presidency has dismissed as laughable the desperate attempt by Governor
Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State to link President Buhari’s wife, Aisha, to US
Congressman William Jefferson’s bribery scandal for which the American
lawmaker was convicted in 2009.
Reacting to Mr. Fayose’s allegations in a
press statement, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media
and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said ordinarily the presidency would have
ignored Fayose because he was a man “childishly obsessed with the desire
to grab the headlines and insulting people at will because of his
incurably boorish instincts.”
Mr. Garba explained however that the
presidency chose to respond on this occasion for the sake of innocent
Nigerians who might be misled by Mr. Fayose’s shameless and blatant
distortion of facts.
He said ignoring Mr. Fayose carried the
risk of giving traction and credibility to outright and brazen
falsehoods inconsistent with the status of anybody that calls himself a
Governor or leader.
According to Mr. Shehu, Aisha had no
direct, indirect or the remotest connection with William Jefferson’s
corruption scandal in the United States.
He challenged Mr. Fayose to tell
Nigerians if the so-called Aisha whose pictures he proudly, but
ignorantly shared, was the same Aisha married to President Muhammadu
Buhari, or if the Aisha of his idle imagination had any relationship by
blood or any relationship in whatever form with President Buhari’s wife.
Mr. Shehu also challenged Mr. Fayose to
produce evidence from the records of investigation and subsequent trial
of Jefferson to prove that Mr. Buhari’s wife Aisha was in anyway linked
to that scandal. He explained that common names alone were not enough to
automatically link innocent people to crimes or scandals, especially in
an era of identity thieves.
He further challenged Mr. Fayose to show
proof when and where Aisha Buhari was invited for interrogation in
connection with Congressman William Jefferson’s bribery scandal, let
alone indicted for a crime locally or abroad.
Credit: PremiumTimes
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