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Like The Punch, First Lady Aisha takes a stand on Buhari’s title
BY OUR EDITOR
Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu should eat his heart out. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media a couple of days ago lampooned the national daily, The Punch, for having the audacity to address the President by his last military title, Major-General.
The Punch had through an editorial titled, ‘Buhari’s lawlessness: Our stand’, taken a position to henceforth address the President as a military dictator he was back in the eighties when he first served as Head of State.
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The newspaper’s decision is a symbolic protest to the administration’s disregard for the rule of law and disobedience to court orders as exemplified in the Omoyele Sowore’s case.
“As a symbolic demonstration of our protest against autocracy and military-style repression, PUNCH (all our print newspapers, The PUNCH, Saturday PUNCH, Sunday PUNCH, PUNCH Sports Extra, and digital platforms, most especially Punchng.com) will henceforth prefix Buhari’s name with his rank as a military dictator in the 80s, Major General, and refer to his administration as a regime, until they purge themselves of their insufferable contempt for the rule of law,” the newspaper wrote.
Shehu took offence and charged at The Punch, saying the newspaper did not have the right to re-designate the President.
But in a move that sharply contrasted with Shehu’s belligerent posture, the First Lady Tuesday took liberty, addressing the President as “MY incorruptible GMB”, as she celebrated her husband on his 77th birthday. GMB, obviously is abbreviation for ‘General Muhammadu Buhari’.
We wait to see if Shehu will take on the First Lady!
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