Radio Biafra lying, says Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has denied expressing anti-Igbo sentiments as alleged by Radio Biafra, a propaganda station that is still on air despite claims by the Federal Government to have jammed its transmission signals.

President Buhari described as completely false, malicious and slanderous, the claim by the station that he disparaged the Igbo ethnic group, in a BBC Hausa interview.

The President, who spoke through his Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity), Garba Shehu, said the voice being ascribed to him in the recording, repeatedly played back by the pirate station, is definitely not his.

“No one should be deceived by the pirate radio station’s hate propaganda against the president,” Shehu said in a statement.

He added: “President Buhari is the president of all Nigerians and will continue to treat all citizens on the basis of fairness, equality and equity.

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“Nigerians should therefore ignore all propaganda designed to sow seeds of discord among them and promote a separatist agenda against national unity, solidarity and progress.”

The President said he has not granted an interview to the BBC since March 31 when he was declared winner of the presidential election, and denied expressing anti-Igbo sentiments in that interview.

“The last interview he had with the BBC Hausa Service, lasting not more than five minutes, was on the day he was declared winner and given his certificate of return as President-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission”, Shehu said.

It added that the BBC Hausa Service Editor, Mansor Liman, has also dissociated the BBC from the interview clip “being ascribed by the pirate radio station to President Buhari.”

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