to one Gideon Samani that he (Buhari) is shy around women, a
development which informed less number of women in the ministerial
nominations. To set the record straight, the President said the
assertion was totally false, saying that he has never been shy around
the opposite sex even as he declared that Samani who paraded himself
as his Senior Special Assistant (Political Matters) is an impostor.
A statement from the Special Adviser to the President on Media and
Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina revealed that such office as Senior
Special Assistant, Political Matters, in the office of the President
does not exist at the moment.
The statement further submitted that President Buhari who has a wife
and daughters cannot be shy around women, pledging the President's
continued consideration of Nigerian women in the affairs of the
nation.
The statement read thus: "The claim that President Muhammadu Buhari
is shy around women, purportedly made by one Gideon Samani yesterday
and published by a national newspaper today is totally fallacious.
"The subsequent attribution of the supposedly "low number" of female
ministerial nominees to President Buhari's alleged shyness around
women is therefore baseless and a figment of the imagination of the
said Mr. Samani, who was falsely described as the "Senior Special
Assistant (Political Matters) to the President.
"The assertion by the alleged Presidential aide that President Buhari
is "very shy dealing with the opposite sex" because "he has been
interacting mostly with men," was received by the President with
shock and consternation.
"For one thing, there is no Senior Special Assistant, Political
Matters, in the office of the President for now and Mr. Samani who was
said to have spoken as the Representative of the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation at a public function yesterday, is not an
aide of the President.
"Mr Samani is certainly not an official spokesman of the President.
Therefore, he could not have spoken on behalf of President Buhari, who
is the President of all Nigerians, men and women alike.''
"President Buhari has a wife, many daughters and female relatives
whom he loves dearly. He also had a mother that he adored. How then
could he be shy in the company of women, to the point of allegedly not
appointing them into public offices, on account of not being
comfortable in their company?
"Nigerian women can be assured that the President holds them in the
highest esteem and will always give them due consideration in the
discharge of his official responsibilities. "The statements attributed
to Mr Samani are untrue and unauthorized. They should therefore be
disregarded."
-Vanguard
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