Nobody Can Manipulate Buhari - Presidency

The Presidency has said that President Muhammadu Buhari, cannot be controlled by anyone.

Speaking through the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity, Mallam Shehu Garba, the Presidency stated that

Buhari is a listening leader, who is ready to listen to anyone.

Garba said that President Buhari is by law unable to ignore the looting of public treasury and crude oil theft and he also has no authority in the activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission.

“Whoever knows President Buhari will not say that kind of thing of him. Nobody can teleguide President Buhari as a leader because he is a  listening leader. He will listen to Chief Obasanjo, he will listen to Dr Jonathan, he will listen to everybody, both high and low; and that is what a good leader should  do.

“He will listen to everyone as a leader who is open to all. Nobody should lose sight of the fact that responsibility is his own and he is conscious of that. So, saying that somebody is teleguiding him cannot be the case.”

Speaking on the intention of  government to probe corrupt practices,

“People who don’t know him can make those assumptions but those who know him cannot make the mistake of saying this. From his days as a candidate, he said government will not dissipate time and energy on probes. As I speak to you now, President Buhari’s government has not engaged in probes.”

“Government is not probing anybody at the moment. But there are matters that he has turned on the table, going through the processes of investigations by the EFCC, ICPC; whatever, those things are, they must go on. Whatever is on the table must be treated.

“In Nigeria, if people have stolen money running into billions of US Dollars, crude oil in billions of US Dollars, the Constitution of Nigeria does not permit President Buhari to wave that off. He has no power. If the EFCC is investigating the theft of  the assets of the country, the President cannot be legally and morally right to stop that from happening. So, this is what is going on”.