Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu
Former Minister of Education, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, has advised presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, to move over to Nollywood and write scripts for their movies, calling him a sycophant and comedian for making a case of frugality on President Muhammadu Buhari’s 32-inch television.
Mallam Garba had in a short essay lauded the simple and Spartan life of Mr President for watching the Nigeria-Cameroon match on his 32-inch television, which according to him was a reflection of Buhari’s austere lifestyle and aversion to corruption and ostentation.
The article which was published in local media must have irked the former minister who railed at Garba in a series of tweets posted on her Twitter handle, @Obyezeks.
She wrote: “@GarShehu Why not move over to Nollywood and write scripts for their movies? Can’t you folks learn that GOVERNANCE is a SERIOUS MATTER?
“Our public officials fail to#Benchmark what they spend their time on against their contemporaries in say, emerging economies. It’s tragic.
“When information comes out from the stable of the President of a country, Citizens should want to take it SERIOUS. STOP YOUR COMEDIES pls.
“The sort of Genuflecting sycophancy that you, .@GarShehu have written on the Pres @MBuhari makes it DIFFICULT for you to TELL HIM THE TRUTH.
“No one who works with a leader&spends their time “singing their praises” is of value to them. FACE YOUR WORK, people. FACE YOUR REAL WORK!”
