Stop lying, Garba tells Omokri, ex-President Jonathans aide
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for those reno tried to mislead yes it is a fact that i worked in the media office of a pdp administration1 malam garba shehu the ssa to the president on media and publicity has told mr. reno omokri ex-president goodluck jonathans aide to stop lying1 he said that he had known and worked with exemplary pastors who were decent and from whom he learned more of the etiquette of truth telling1 the presidential aide gave names of pastor emeka izeze and his brother pastor ifeanyi or his friend pastor segun babatope and lately femi adesina and prof. yemi osinbajo as example of such trustful pastors1 i am 100 per cent loyal to president muhammadu buhari shehu said1 he dismissed allegation made against him by omokri and affirmed that he does not belong to any government in power agip1 shehu made the clarification in a write-up entitled the real price of change the change campaign 2 issued in abuja on sunday1 presidential aide said he was invited to serve buhari administration as one of the two spokespersons of the government and he subsequently pledged 100 per cent loyalty to the government1 this cannot be agip by any standards1 he stated that omokri lied against him and narrated the circumstances that resulted in his resignation while serving in the media office of a pdp administration1 reno should stop lying if only to help the pastoral calling to retain its good name. otherwise he should quit the ministry shehu advised the viperous critic of buhari 1 not for five years as the new-day pastor published but only for six months at which point it was announced on nta news to my surprise that my letter of resignation had been accepted when i hadnt written any1 i learned of course that i was fired because the head of the country at that time who believed that every published criticism was sponsored by an insider read the weekly magazine the news and didnt like what was written about him he said1 he further explained pastor reno lied by calling me an agip the period he was referring to was one in which my boss ran into bad political weather and some of us around him were scapegoated1 i was locked in dss detention many times my houses in kano and abuja broken into and valuables including cash some of which were never returned were seized1 i was going to court for two years and for the most part of which i didnt have a passport1 in the course of that trial the judge presiding called back my lawyers niyi akintola san and rickey tarfa san after an adjournment to say that i didnt mean that he should be kept in dss detention. i said he should be taken to kuje prison and thats where i was kept1 under detention in the dss i was stripped down to the pants and photographed head to toe. all that didnt make one to capitulate1 when they lost to muhammadu buhari in the party primaries the candidates in that race gov. rabiu musa kwankwaso waziri atiku abubakar rochas okorocha and sam nda-isaiah surrendered their media assets to the winner who had the grace to ask me to lead the media team1 when we won he then president-elect buhari invited me to serve as one of his two spokespersons and i pledged 100 per cent loyalty to him and thats where i am. this cannot be agip by any standards. nan1