Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, who spoke on the incident in Abuja on Thursday, described the reports as “unfair and uncharitable.’’
He stated
that witnesses to Oke’s visit to the Vice President on the fateful day
and his own personal account clearly indicated that the DG did not cry
as widely reported in the social and some traditional media.
The
Presidential media aide, who narrated how the incident happened, said:
“the widespread reports that Oke of the National Intelligence Agency had
cried are unfair and uncharitable.
“Witnesses
to his visit to the Vice President and his own personal account, said
that Oke arrived to a swarm of journalists which he wanted to avoid.
“He
asked his driver to make a quick turn and instead, he headed to the
Glass House, the headquarters of the Department of State Services (DSS).
“From
there, he put a call to the Special Adviser to the President on Media
and Publicity, Femi Adesina, and requested that he help to clear the
journalists so that he can make a quiet entry to the VP’s office and
that is what happened.
“In an SUV with darkened windows, no one could have seen an occupant crying.’’
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday met separately with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Babachir Lawal and the NIA DG, Ayo Oke, barely an hour after the announcement Lawal’s and Oke’s suspension from office.
NAN
gathered that the closed-door meeting was in connection with the work
of the Presidential Committee set up to investigate allegations of
misconduct against the SGF and the DG, NIA.
The SGF refused to comment on the outcome of his meeting with the Vice-President.
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