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The Presidency on Sunday cleared the air on the varying interpretations drawn from the concluding remarks of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), during his visit to Imo State last Thursday.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, explained this in a statement titled Presidency ‘What President Buhari said (didn’t say) in Imo State’.

According to Adesina, “purveyors of misinformation” have “deliberately contorted” the president’s speech out of context.

The statement read, “We have observed that President Buhari’s concluding remarks at the meeting with South-East Leaders during his one-day visit to Imo State is being deliberately contorted and twisted out of context.

“The purveyors of disinformation want Nigerians to believe that the President bluntly told Governor Uzodinma, ‘’I’ll be careful with your future invitations.’

“They have adduced different meanings to the phrase, contrary to the context wherein the President spoke during his successful dialogue with leaders of thought from Igbo land.

“When he arrived at the banquet hall of Imo State Government House for his last assignment in Owerri, the President was welcomed by over 50 leaders from the South East who had waited patiently for him for a Town Hall engagement, after commissioning strategic projects in the state.

Adesina said that an elated Buhari made it clear that he was expressly overwhelmed by the reception and galaxy of personalities that travelled from the five South Eastern States to have a heart-to-heart discussion with him in Owerri, the Imo State capital.

He quoted the President as saying, ‘‘I am overwhelmed by this reception, overwhelmed in the sense that when I accepted the invitation by the Imo State Governor, who wants to justify investments the government has done to the people of Imo State, I thought I would see the bridges, the roads, and a few renovations.

“He didn’t tell me he was going to get the whole Igbo leadership here. So in the future when he invites me, I’ll know what to do. But I think he has done what the military didn’t like. He has achieved surprise. He has surprised me beyond description.’’

Concluding, Buhari referenced his earlier remarks on the ‘‘surprise’’ action pulled by the Governor. On a lighter note, he quipped: “‘Governor of Imo State, I cannot thank you enough, but I will be careful with your future invitations.’’

This, the Presidency says, has no other meaning other than the light nature with which Buhari made the statement.

It said, “the President’s historic visit to Imo State was very successful and the Igbo leaders who met him shared the same enthusiasm that his coming to the Eastern heartland would bring peace, foster unity, encourage good and better understanding among the citizenry.”

https://punchng.com/buharis-comment-on-future-invitations-to-imo-misquoted-presidency/

We have heard ooo. I have personally lost interest in politics because of APC. I don't even know if we still have president in this country.

BS

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The majority of Nigeria media work for PDP and ipob terrorists

Lol

Noted

Ok

Sirjamo:
The majority of Nigeria media work for PDP and ipob terrorists

That means your Buhari is a failure for loosing grip over his communication's commission.

wetin ndi dot can't can does not exist

Xscape1993:
We have heard ooo. I have personally lost interest in politics because of APC. I don't even know if we still have president in this country.

Never have I ever been interested in Nigeria’s politics.
It’s all farce and a waste of mental energy and emotional investment.

Buhari will talk and presidency will start twisting it to taste. Is Buhari a baby

Does it means Buhari cannot speak in the English we understand again. The man spoke correct English, he is a good Muslim of hisbah standards, with good medical records necessary for communication and someone is telling us he was quoted out of context.

SpecialAdviser:


They are paid to defend him. Never mind.
Let me also say that the statement was actually TRUE. How can you describe the embarrassment of inviting a president to commission gutter?

Hopelessness Uzodinjo is a disgrace. Am still waiting for the HOPE Mbaka prophesied for Imo people.

BeeBeeOoh:
That means your Buhari is a failure for loosing grip over his communication's commission.

If he uses the communication commission to deal with them, you will call him a dictator. Hypocrites like you cannot be satisfied.

Sirjamo:
If he uses the communication commission to deal with them, you will call him a dictator. Hypocrites like you cannot be satisfied.

i guess using DSS and their likes to intimidate and break into people's homes in the wee hours makes him a democrat?



I dobale for your reasoning

omowolewa:
Buhari will talk and presidency will start twisting it to taste. I Buhari a baby

Does it means Buhari cannot speak in the English we understand again.

They are paid to defend him. Never mind.
Let me also say that the statement was actually TRUE. How can you describe the embarrassment of inviting a president to commission gutter?

Hopelessness Uzodinjo is a disgrace. Am still waiting for the HOPE Mbaka prophesied for Imo people.

If only they took their job seriously as they do in countering and counter countering what people said or not, this country would have been far better.

Ewus

The weakest form of Damage control I have ever seen.


A leader will say something in a public gathering; days later, his aide will begin to explain the meaning of what the leader said before.

There'll be no future invitation, this was done by Uzodinma you installed. No governor of the people would invite a nonchalant mannequin to Imo State.

Taa gerrat. wetin Shiek Gumi tell u. U de overdo urself. So you mean that Buhari don't know the meaning of what he said? Buhari was scammed by Supreme Court Governor as him no see people to welcome him. Na Shane make am talk that thing wey him talk, that he will be careful when next he's invited. Because the visit was a shameful one

Na culvert and gutter a whole president came to commission. Something that Desmond Idiot can easily do

Another well written jargon

The real truth is we can't wait till its 2023 and time for Buhari to leave that sit whether Mannabrills or whatever likes it or not. That's it mehn

Was this femi there when he made the statement?

U

Imagine the president cannot express himself by himself in a country of 200 million people with millions of intellectuals

The useless presidency and their usual stupidity called misquoted.


Fools!!!

Yimmu

Igbos missed the opportunity, the sit at home achieved nothing, rather they should have come out in their numbers to boo him, with some bold inscriptions bearing their grievances.

providencia:


They would have shot them

With the media at full display, there would be no denying. He would have been made to face the charges at the international criminal court.

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Sirjamo:
If he uses the communication commission to deal with them, you will call him a dictator. Hypocrites like you cannot be satisfied.

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This brainwashed BMC always posting gibberish. You no Dey tire?

that ISI AGU CLOTH WITH JOMPA TRO is still paining bubu

Sirjamo:
The majority of Nigeria media work for PDP and ipob terrorists

Same way they worked to package the vegetable in 2015