Buhari Presidency reveal plans to disrupt President's London stay
The Presidency has uncovered plans by those described as “Nigerian looters” to disrupt the ongoing official visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to London.
Sources
in the presidency told State House correspondents on Tuesday night that
the alleged looters and corrupt elements had rented motley crowd of
professional demonstrators to protest against President Buhari on his
arrival to London.
The sources said: “Barely
24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari declared his intention to
contest for another term in office as President of Nigeria, the camps of
alleged looters and corrupt elements within and outside the country
have been jolted.
“This has
forced them to push panic buttons including renting a motley crowd of
professional demonstrators to protest against the President on his
arrival into the United Kingdom.”
According
to the impeccable sources in Aso Villa and Britain, extremely corrupt
Nigerians who are custodians of slush funds stolen from Nigeria, and
hiding in UK or are resident cronies of such elements, have colluded to
form a league of protesters.
The sources
maintained that the protesters’ singular aim was to distract and
disorganise the scheduled state visit of the President to England,.
President Buhari is billed to hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Theresa May and other dignitaries.
“Esteemed
Nigerians home and abroad, friends and business investors in Nigeria,
should please see through the veil of the motive behind the Abuja House,
Kensington London demonstration.
“It
was an orchestrated act of desperation and a ploy to blackmail and
hoodwink the President from concentrating on his anti corruption
campaign , which is fast gaining grounds locally and internationally,” our source stated authoritatively.
The source added that, “this
unpatriotic act is not unconnected to the Federal government policies
to name and shame corrupt citizens and looters; to collate database of
Nigerians with homes in UK who are not paying the right taxes, and the
hot drive to prosecute all financial defaulters through bilateral and
multilateral means.”
A public
affairs analyst who preferred anonymity also said “the protest was
benchmarked on an assemblage of local grievances and national challenges
which the government is already tackling head on.
”Such
as the herdsmen versus agrarian farmers clashes, fuel scarcity which no
longer exists and trumped up charge of hunger in the land at a time
when prices of food items are beginning to drop and inflation on the
decrease.”
His view was buttressed
by our Presidency sources who further repeated the position of the
President who famously said that “corruption is endemic and Nigerians
need to kill it before it kills Nigerians.”
According to the source, it is obvious that this is a clear cut incident of corruption fighting back.
The
source believed that many of the beneficiaries of corruption and slush
funds could not withstand another devastating blow of Buhari’s anti
corruption sledge hammer.
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”Hence,
they are resolute to derail the apple cart in order to save their ugly
faces and sit back to enjoy the loot in their personal banks.
”Some of the protesters are not even Nigerians but hired hatchet men paid to do the dirty job.
”According
to security sources, the protesters are said to be bent on embarrassing
and humiliating the President throughout his stay in the UK.
”An
insider vowed that they will take their demonstrations to the venue of
CHOGM holding later in the month in Britain, which President Buhari is
attending as a Commonwealth Head of State.,” the further source revealed
When contacted, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said while reacting to the London protest that the President would not be distracted from his mission in the UK.
Buhari Presidency reveal plans to disrupt President's London stay
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