Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media, Femi Adesina
Correspondent of Punch Newspapers, Olalekan Adetayo, attached to the State House, Abuja, has been cleared to return, barely hours after he was expelled by President Muhammadu Buhari’s power-drunk Chief Security Officer (CSO), Bashir Abubakar over his story of the president’s failing health. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, confirmed this in a message addressed to the Chairman of the State House Press Corps, Malam Ubale Musa
The presidential spokesman disclosed that the recall of Adetayo followed the intervention of the Director-General of the Department for State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura.
He said his office and that of the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity will resolve the issue on Tuesday.
“”We just got a clearance from Malam Lawal Daura, the DG SSS, to recall Lekan to the Villa. Please come along with him tomorrow.
“”The Special Adviser on Media, Femi Adesina and I will resolve the issues,” he said.
Adetayo was on Monday humiliated by Mr. Abubakar, who interrogated him over a story he claimed the presidency considered offensive.
The correspondent, who spent about 45 minutes with his interrogators, was later escorted out of the Presidential Villa by security operatives after picking his belongings from the Press Gallery of the Council Chamber.
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