The Minister for Communications, Alhaji Adebayo Shittu got a dose from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha when he was denied distributing President Buhari’s re-election campaign face caps.
Alhaji Shittu who is still at loggerheads with the governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi emerged from a meeting with Buhari at the villa and announced that he had been appointed National Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo Dynamic Support Group.
The group’s main objectives are to flag off the Buhari/Osinbajo re-election campaign and canvass support for the incumbent duo.
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Desperate to prove that he’s been hard at work with the president’s re-election plans, Shittu showed up at the FEC meeting this week with a Ghana-Must-Go bag packed full with campaign memorabilia. er Shittu heads the Buhari campaign organisation in the Southwest
Top of the memorabilia were caps with the inscription “Continuity ’19: Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajoâ€.
The caps were also emblazoned with the logo of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).
Shittu was spotting one of the bluish caps himself and looking the part.
However, as the minister made to distribute the caps through council staff, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, prevented him from doing so, villa sources told Pulse.
“It was not a good time, given that former president Olusegun Obasanjo had denounced re-election moves at a time when herdsmen have been killing Nigerians, in his letterâ€, one villa source said.
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Obasanjo’s lengthy letter contained the following words: “And it is a sad symptom of insensitivity and callousness that some Governors, a day after 73 victims were being buried in a mass grave in Benue State without condolence, were jubilantly endorsing President Buhari for a second term! The timing was most unfortunateâ€.
We learnt that Shittu handed over the Ghana-Must-Go bag containing caps, to villa staff whose job it was to distribute them to council members. But Mustapha would have none of it.
“A lot of people across the country have started calling us that they want to be part of our programme. They are glad that we have started this early and I am sure that we will be able to neutralise the nay sayers,†Shittu vowed.
President Buhari is yet to say if he’ll seek a second term or not, but State Governors and party faithful have since flagged off re-election campaign on his behalf.
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