Presidency denies Reuben Abati’s appointment as spokesman
Columnists, Latest Politics, Reuben Abati Friday, July 1st, 2011ABUJA – THE Presidency, Friday, has distanced itself from reports (not Vanguard) that President Goodluck Jonathan has settled for the appointment of Mr Reuben Abati as his new spokesman, saying that “Mr Niboro’s office is not vacant”.
One of the most senior aides in Aso Rock who didn’t accompanied the President to the African Union, AU, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, told Vanguard that the Presidency is not surprised by the report, “as many political applicants have recently resorted to the media to announce their dream appointments, without a formal letter from the C-in-C”.
The source which preferred anonymity dismissed the reports, saying that ” we expected you guys (media) to have speculated the list of the 20 presidential advisers like you did in the case of the ministers. But it’s obvious that you guys don’t have anything close to it, this time around; hence you shifted attention to your colleague, Niboro”.
“We are not surprised, at all. After all, the media have been in the business of appointing aides to the president lately.
Remember they appointed about three different persons at different times as new Chief of Staff to the President. But what I can tell you, is that, there is absolutely no sense in the reports; and they are outright personal imagination of the authors”, the source said.
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