The Presidency has dismissed as laughable the desperate attempt by Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State to link President Buhari's wife Aisha to US Congressman William Jefferson's bribery scandal for which the American lawmaker was convicted in 2009.

Reacting to Fayose's allegations in a press statement, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said ordinarily the presidency would have ignored Fayose because he is a man "childishly obsessed with the desire to grab the headlines and insulting people at will because of his incurably boorish instincts."

Malam Garba explained however that the presidency chose to respond on this occasion for the sake of innocent Nigerians who might be misled by Fayose's shameless and blatant distortion of facts.

He said ignoring Fayose carries the risk of giving traction and credibility to outright and brazen falsehoods inconsistent with the status of anybody that calls himself a Governor or leader.

According to Shehu, Aisha had no direct, indirect or the remotest connection with William Jefferson's corruption scandal in the United States.

He challenged Fayose to tell Nigerians if the so-called Aisha whose pictures he proudly, but ignorantly shared, was the same Aisha married to President Muhammadu Buhari, or if the Aisha of his idle imagination had any relationship by blood or any relationship in whatever form, with President Buhari's wife.

Shehu also challenged Fayose to produce evidence from the records of investigation and subsequent trial of Jefferson to prove that Buhari's wife Aisha was in anyway linked to that scandal. He explained that common names alone are not enough to automatically link innocent people to crimes or scandals, especially in an era of identity thieves.

He further challenged Fayose to show proof when and where Aisha Buhari was invited for interrogation in connection with Congressman William Jefferson's bribery scandal, let alone indicted for a crime locally or abroad.

According to the Presidential Media Aide, free speech does not entitle Governor Fayose to falsely accuse innocent people of crimes they knew nothing about.

He warned Fayose that Aisha Buhari is entitled to protect her reputation from being recklessly maligned, adding that political opposition is not a licence to attack people's reputation brazenly without legal consequences.

what reputation? rubbish press

Abi Buhari is hopelessly confused? Defend yourselves joor!

The onus is on Fayose to back his allegations with incontrovertible proofs. I pray he takes up the challenge and add salt to the sauce he recently served the nation.

source: ??
Or are u de next faceless god 4 aso Rock or Aisha

Hmm

This Ekiti comedian with his motor park gossips

Is the presidency already on NL..

.. because this OP..

Its d tyrant president dat need deliverance

I think we need some evidence here, to fully substantiate his ( Gov. Fayose) claim.

To even think that anyone believes the lies of fayose shows the level of intellectual depreciation in Nigeria.

Abeg, Mr. presidency.. we dey put source for here o..

..we might not be magnanimous next time

dunkem21:
Is the presidency already on NL..

.. because this OP..

The Presidency is now on Nairaland.

dunkem21:
Abeg, Mr. presidency.. we dey put source for here o..

..we might not be magnanimous next time

This is coming directly from the office of the president.

Check the twitter handle.
https://mobile.twitter.com/digicommsng

The drunk kponmo cutter's disciples are deeply pained by the exposition of their foolishness. Some on this thread in their desperate mumurity are still calling for the head of the wife of PMB.

A sitting governor going live on air to make claims he hasn't independently verified to be true shows how much we still have to go in our quest for real leadership. Fayose has been doing his utmost best to make Ekiti a laughing stock since his reelection in 2014 till now. From his now infamous newspaper obituary advert to his frequent rambling about the president's health pre and post elections to his China fiasco, saying Fayose is Childlish is actually being kind to him and a major insult to children. Well, when the FG is through with him, he'll understand the fact that not everyone can tackle d FG head on as Amaechi did. Call it abuse of power or dictatorship I don't care! Fayose must be taught how people behave in a civilized society

The presidency is hopelessly confused and needs prayers

thanks for putting the record straight

my governor won't kill sombori

eleojo23:

The Presidency is now on Nairaland.


This is coming directly from the office of the president.

Check the twitter handle.
https://mobile.twitter.com/digicommsng

Eeeeeeee.. and nobody informed the wailing spokesperson..

.. abi na why my NL account was frozen by EFCC mods..

So, finally lalasticlala's forerunner is here..

Welcome presidency!

Fayose went to far this time around.

Ekiti Workers are unpaid and he had 1.7Billion personally.

But, he citing a certain Aisha does show how the Word "Flailing" plays out.

He can be sued for Defamation,

But their are so many other things to pin him. It's not enough you the opposition Governor in the SW. Tinubu once was the only opposition to Obj back then, but we didn't see anything notoriously foolish.

Well, it's Fash Baba, so, we all use to his Silliness

Or better still; I am.

I wonder why the presidency would dignify Fayose with a response. He isn't relevant. Let the facts speak for themselves.

Fayose just killed himself with this lies nd propaganda,his he trying to blacmail the gf with his bullcrap gimmick or what.am sure he thinks ekiti people got his back,but come 2018 he would be so embarrased by this same people smiling at him.I pity his supporters nd pdp should please talk to fayose where he can hear,cause he his destroying the party already.pdp don't have good record in ekiti(from fayose to segun oni)they don't finish there tenure,nd ekiti people don't vote for a party back to back.so pdp should forget ekiti come 2018 except they rig.

Chio but why why would they finish a kpomo cutter like this? a striking governor that fries meat in the market should not be trashed like this before he contemplates suicide.

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RZArecta:
The presidency is hopelessly confused and needs prayers

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But the liar kpomo cutter who doubles as Nigeria's only striking governor is not confused and doesn't need prayer? Abeg shift.

merry02:
what reputation? rubbish press

tell fayose to go and explain to efcc how #dasukigate got to his personal account, instead of dragging the president wife into his chronic looting habit, money meant to buy weapons how did it get into fayose private account, who transferred it, how much did he receive those should be the answer he ought to be giving us.

i guess fayose has not held of identity theft before becus he his a stack illiterate, if he have any prove that it was PMB wife who did that transfer he should give us prove

PRYCE:
Abi Buhari is hopelessly confused? Defend yourselves joor!

tell ir fayose to tell us how #dasukigate got into his private account since the efcc has block it, how come money meant to buy weapon some of which was trace to his account, since the efcc has come out with a response why has he not reply, have you or fayose held of identity theft before i don't think so.

The presidency should go further by reopening the halibuburton case and letting Nigerian know who that Aisha Buhari is because alot of us might think it's the presidents wife for the simple reason that we know most ex head of state collected the Bribe except General Buhari but the myth goes that a certain Aisha Buhari went behind to collect it on behalf of her role incorruptible husband ..so who is Aisha Buhari and why has The Buhari led govt refused to look at halibuburton despite it stance on anti corruption?

Lies or not ! Are u telling me buhari and his men are saint

I concur