The Presidency has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari never described all Nigerians as criminals.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Mallam Garba Shehu on Tuesday night reacting to what he called brouhaha over Buhari’s comments in an interview granted to the United Kingdom’s Telegraph Newspaper on February 5. Shehu described as misconstrued, the various interpretations of President Buhari’s comments in the interview. He said the wave of negative reactions to the president’s remarks about the reputation of Nigerians abroad was as a result of an incomplete understanding of Buhari’s point. He said: “President Buhari was asked about the flood of migrants from Nigeria and the fraudulent applications for asylum put in by people desperate to leave their mother land at any cost, and it was this question that elicited his response”. The presidential spokesman asked Nigerians to avail themselves of a full text of the interview which, according to him, has been made available on the Telegraph’s website.
 

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