Press statement from the Presidency
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The State House has described as
misconstrued, the various
interpretations of President
Muhammadu Buhari's comments in an
interview granted to the UK's
Telegraph newspaper on February 5,
2016. In a statement released in Abuja
on Tuesday, February 9, Malam Garba
Shehu (Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Media and Publicity)
noted that the wave of negative
reactions to the President's remarks
about the reputation of Nigerians
abroad was as a result of an
incomplete understanding of President
Buhari's point.
"President Buhari was asked about the
flood of migrants from Nigeria and the
fraudulent applications for asylum put
in by people desperate to leave their
motherland at any cost, and it was this
question that elicited his response," he
said, encouraging Nigerians to avail
themselves of a full text of the
interview, which has now been made
available on the Telegraph's website.
Malam Shehu added that it was
preposterous for anyone to imagine
that the President of Nigeria would
describe all the citizens of the country
he leads as criminals, when he himself
is a Nigerian--obviously not a criminal--
and when there are many Nigerians of
honest living making their country
proud all over the world.
"Unfortunately, there are also Nigerians
giving their country a bad image
abroad, and it is to those Nigerians
that the President referred in his
comments," he said, adding that
people may play politics and online
games with the President's comments,
but the fact of the matter remains that
Nigeria's reputation abroad has been
severely damaged by her own citizens.
"These Nigerians who leave their
country to go and make mischief on
foreign shores have given the rest of
us a bad reputation that we daily
struggle to overcome." Malam Shehu
called attention to the many efforts of
President Buhari to clean up the image
of Nigeria, such as the war on
corruption, stating that acknowledging
you have a problem is the first step to
preferring a solution.
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