Buhari denies banning AIT, warns aides to stop causing problems

Nigeria’s president-elect Muhammadu Buhari, has instructed all his
staff, including the personnel attached directly to him, to steer clear
of all dealings with the media, and leave all media affairs to his
official media team.
In
a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, April 29, by the Directorate of
Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Mr. Buhari
aligned himself with the pronouncement of his party, the All
Progressives Congress, APC, which had earlier expressed disagreement
with the temporary barring of the African Independent Television (AIT)
from covering his activities.
“I would like everyone to henceforth stay within his/her defined area of responsibility,” Buhari warned.
The
president-elect added that his media team should be left to continue to
deal with their media colleagues in the best possible way.
Buhari
said he was neither consulted nor informed about the AIT barring, and
only became aware of the matter after the public uproar it generated.

“The
time of Change has come,” he said, “and we must avoid making the same
mistakes that the outgoing government made,” he added.