- Garba was a close associate of Atiku but left him to work for Buhari after the 2014 presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress, which Atiku lost to Buhari.
Former Senior Special Assistant SSA on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Malam Garba Shehu, says he did betray ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Garba was a close associate of Atiku but left him to work for Buhari after the 2014 presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress, which Atiku lost to Buhari.
He was later appointed as spokesperson to the former president, eliciting claims that he betrayed his former principal.
But speaking to newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, Garba dismissed insinuations in some quarters that he ditched his former principal, therefore betrayed him when he chose to work for Buhari.
The event media parley was part of the event to unveil his memoir, “According to the President: Lessons from a Presidential Spokesperson’s Experience”, slated for public presentation on July 9.
The former president of the Nigeria Guild of Editors, NGE, explained that all those who contested with Buhari for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2014 donated their campaign assets to Buhari after he won the primary election.
He said it was on that basis that Buhari appointed him the spokesperson of the presidential campaign council and thereafter went on to appoint him as his spokesperson when he won in the general election.
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