The Nigerian presidency has released the statement below disowning an official who reportedly said President Muhammadu Buhari is shy around women.

Read full statement by Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, below.

“The claim that President Muhammadu Buhari is shy around women, purportedly made by one Gideon Samani yesterday and published by a national newspaper today is totally fallacious.

“The subsequent attribution of the supposedly “low number” of female ministerial nominees to President Buhari’s alleged shyness around women is therefore baseless and a figment of the imagination of the said Mr. Samani, who was falsely described as the “Senior Special Assistant (Political Matters) to the President.

“The assertion by the alleged Presidential Aide that President Buhari is “very shy dealing with the opposite sex” because “he has been interacting mostly with men,” was received by the President with shock and consternation.

“For one thing, there is no Senior Special Assistant, Political Matters, in the office of the President for now and Mr. Samani who was said to have spoken as the Representative of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation at a public function yesterday, is not an aide of the President.

“Mr Samani is certainly not an official spokesman of the President. Therefore, he could not have spoken on behalf of President Buhari, who is the President of all Nigerians, men and women alike.
“President Buhari has a wife, many daughters and female relatives whom he loves dearly. He also had a mother that he adored. How then could he be shy in the company of women, to the point of allegedly not appointing them into public offices, on account of not being comfortable in their company?

“Nigerian women can be assured that the President holds them in the highest esteem and will always give them due consideration in the discharge of his official responsibilities.

“The statements attributed to Mr Samani are untrue and unauthorized. They should therefore be disregarded.”

kokoA:
A bad sharp guy who captured a beauty like Aisha is definitely not shy around women. He is only careful not to trapped by bottom power like someone I use to know.

FreeGlobe:
This administration self.. A joke!

Sijo01:
Confused Administration! Mstcheeew.

kekakuz:
Boko aram is killing people and we are busy shying around women.

donholy28:
The presidential aide that said that he is shy around women should be arrested for giving us false info

tpiah11:
Boya won ti fi obinrin loo ti o dahun.

Editor1:
If he likes let him be shy around "Aishy". Still doesn't stop him from been a Dullapo.
Still waiting for the 5k per month he promised Olaolu, my jobless friend.
And not forgetting the school meals he promised Nancy, my cousin's friend's little niece!
This Adesina is so incompetent dat he searches for news to refute. What has been shy around women got to do with fulfilling ur campaign promises? mtcheeewww!!
Truly, When the dullard rules...

Sijo01:
Confused Administration! Mstcheeew.