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Farooq Kperogi by Ahmeduana(m): 10:02am On Feb 12, 2017 |
Farooq Kperogi
Buhari’s Government of No Substance and
Propaganda
In trying to verify the accuracy of the odd
appointment letter I posted here yesterday, I
discovered that President Buhari actually has 9,
not 6, media aides, all of whom also have a
retinue of personal aides.
The presidential media aides are Femi Adesina
(Special Adviser, Media & Publicity); Garba Shehu
(Senior Special Assistant, Media & Publicity); Tolu
Ogunlesi (Special Assistant, Digital & New Media);
Lauretta Onochie (Personal Assistant, Social
Media); Bashir Ahmad (Personal Assistant, New
media); Sha’aban Sharada (Personal Assistant,
Broadcast Media); Naziru Muhammed (Personal
Assistant, TV Documentary); Sunday Aghaeze
(Personal Assistant, Photography); and Bayo
Omoboriowo (Personal Assistant/ President’s
Photographer).
In addition, the president has about 40 paid
journalists, bloggers, media analysts,
commentators (whose names I have but will
leave out for now), working under the Buhari
Media Centre (BMC) in Utako, Abuja. The BMC is a
well-furnished one-storey building with expansive
premises. It has security guards, clerks, and
cashiers. The team members are paid a monthly
allowance of between N200,000 and N250,000.
They are mandated to react to all media contents
critical of the president, write favorable news
items for the president, and attack/demonize/
smear people critical of the president. They also
work with government agencies such as the
EFCC to push narratives to deflect attention from
the ineptitude of the government.
They work behind the scenes and use pen names
in extended articles, and pseudonyms on social
media. Almost all the members of the APC
Presidential Campaign Media Directorate operate
from the BMC, with the exception of those with
appointments. And this excludes Lai
Mohammad’s well-oiled lie squad.
When a government takes propaganda and
mind-management this seriously, you know it’s
not ready to change. Good deeds are their own
PR. It is when people determine that they don’t
want to do good deeds that they resort to
mindless propaganda. If only they invested and
expended as much energy in managing the
economy as they do in propaganda, we won’t be
where we are. I have more, but I will stop here
for now. By the way, that appointment letter is
authentic. |
Re: Farooq Kperogi by PrinceFromDilli(m): 10:28am On Feb 12, 2017 |
Omojuwa yansh Don open |
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