Buhari claps back at critics, says hail and hearty in Daura
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Former President Muhammadu Buhari has denied fleeing Nigeria for another country in exile as recently published by a national newspaper.
Buhari had threatened at the twilight of his administration to emigrate to Niger Republic if Nigerians would not let him rest in peace on his animal farm in Daura.
And he has travelled to the United Kingdom since leaving office on May 29.
But he insisted at the weekend through his spokesman Garba Shehu that he has not gone on exile and is alive and kicking and happy tending his ranch which has more than 270 heads of cattle apart from sheep and a variety of birds.
Buhari congratulated his successor Bola Tinubu for emerging as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), according a statement he issued through Shehu.
Shehu advised media outlets to always confirm their reports, stressing his principal is with his family in his Daura hometown in Katsina.
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Fake news destroys media credibility
“For misleading the otherwise credible newspaper to falsely report on their front page that former President Muhammadu Buhari has ‘fled’ and on ‘exile’ when he is currently at home with family in Daura, Katsina State, BusinessDay newspaper should sack their reporter who didn’t do the job of checking his facts,” Shehu said, per Vanguard.
“BusinessDay should think 10 times before running any information from the particular reporter and verify it before believing him. Every platform has tools to verify any information and we don’t expect anything less from BusinessDay.
“If they had browsed through different sources, they [would] have seen reports of the former President having come back home and enjoying the company of his family.
“A single fake news in a newspaper has the capability to destroy a reputation built on years of hard work.”