The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has said the President didn’t clear the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal of corruption as widely held.
He said this while featuring on ‘Ra’ayi Riga’, a BBC Hausa audience participation programme, on Friday.
The Presidential spokesperson said Buhari only acted in response to the senate’s report which indicted Lawal of fraudulent act.
Shehu said the criticisms that have trailed the development were unwarranted “because his letter to the senate did not dwell on whether the SGF was guilty or not guilty.
“What President Buhari has done is simply to act in a response to a report by the SGF, Babachir David Lawal, who insisted that he and the companies cited were not given a fair hearing by the National Assembly.
“President Buhari’s communication to Nigeria’s lawmakers was simply this: If the SGF was not given a fair hearing, can you now give him one?”
The Presidential spokesman said the report was an interim one and that a final report was, therefore, being expected.
Shehu said in spite of Buhari’s strong stance on corruption, “he believes in due process and in fair hearing, without which, our democracy cannot be taken seriously by Nigerians or the international community.”
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