Nigeria: Garba Shehu, This Is Definitely Not the Change Buhari Promised!

24 August 2016

In his recent article titled 'This is the Change', presidential spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu embarked on an arduous but unsuccessful task of attempting to justify the economic hardship, biting hunger, political retrogression, judicial rascality, executive recklessness, electoral inconclusiveness, etc which have all become the indelible insignia of the Buhari-led administration.

Reading through the essay, one would have no choice but to have pity on a spokesperson who has nothing positive to write about his boss but must still write something positive all the same in order to help shore up his diminished rating. Honestly, I feel for the president's spokespersons; this is not the kind of president anyone would want to speak for as evidenced in Shehu's and Femi Adeshina's futile attempts to always want to 'squeeze water from stone' in order to convince Nigerians about Buhari.

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