Nigerian Presidency has corrected a notion being floated by goups and individuals that President Muhammadu Buhari is the brain behind the Nigerian Press Council Amendment Bill, saying that such notion is not true.
Presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, who spoke to newsmen today, Wednesday on the controversy surrounding the proposed amendment of the law sponsored as a Private Member’s Bill, said that all the attacks against the government as a result of the bill were misdirected, since it has nothing at all to do with the Executive.
“This is a privately-sponsored bill. President Muhammadu Buhari is not involved. President Buhari should not be blamed for the actions of the legislators whom we voted to represent us in the National Assembly.
“At the same time, the Presidency would like to assure everyone that, however the process ends, President Buhari will not compromise his impeccable and untainted democratic credentials by signing into law, any bill that violates the letter or the spirit of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
