President Buhari reportedly declined a live interview, but granted a recorded interview with Arise TV tagged ’90 Minutes with President Buhari’.

Charles Aniagolu, the presenter, who revealed that President Buhari declined a live interview, said the Nigerian President instead decided to hold a recorded session only with ThisDay newspaper.“Straightaway, Mr Buhari declined to be interviewed live on camera by Arise News, preferring instead to hold a recorded session only with ThisDay newspaper.

And so, the Board of Editors from ThisDay spent over an hour questioning the president about the substance of his major policy signature issues such as lapses in security, the fight against corruption, the economy, poverty alleviation and the infrastructure deficit”.

“In the course of the interview,President Buhari was asked why he had not removed the service chiefs despite the increasing spate of attacks by Boko Harammembers.In his response, President Buhari said he followed due process in appointing the service chiefs but did not know they would perform poorly. He said he accepts responsibility for their poor performance. He said when dealing with issues of security emergencies, one has to be careful with tampering with the head of service.


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