Attahiru Burial: Buhari Doesn’t Like Disturbing Nigerians – Shehu Explains

Presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, has given an explanation as to why President Muhammadu Buhari was absent at the  burial of General Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff, and 10 other military officers. According to him, the president does not like disturbing the peace of Nigerians with his presence.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the officers, who died in a plane crash in Kaduna on Friday, were buried in Abuja on Saturday with neither Buhari nor Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo attended the funeral.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG further reports that the absence of the president and his notable officers at the burial spurred outrage on social media with Nigerians condemning what they alleged as the president’s aloofness to the pains of Nigerians.

Responding to the issue, Mallam Shehu while speaking on an Arise Tv said that he was out of the country when the issue happened and that he had not spoken to the president on the issue but cited the president’s use of the observance of Juma’at at Aso Rock in order to avoid road closures as an example.

“I was in Europe myself on assignment and I have not spoken to the president on this but let me give you just one example: the president is somebody who is so concerned about the safety and wellbeing of ordinary Nigerians on the streets.

“Do you know why he now prays his Juma’at in the state house and doesn’t go to the national mosque? Because he doesn’t like this idea of closing roads, security men molesting people on the road for the president to have the right of way.

“These are small things for many people but they are important for President Muhammadu Buhari. So, it is a mourning situation and the president didn’t want to take away attention from that.”

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