May 29: Magashi Distances Self From Forbidding Tinubu’s Swearing In

Minister of Defence Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (rtd) has denied media reports attributed to him forbidding the swearing in of president-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29.

A statement by his special assistant, Mohammad Abdulkadri said; “The myopic, diabolic and despotic publication can be  traced to the stable of the agents of anti-democratic forces who are  masquerading as politicians.” 

The statement added the report was the stock in trade of some  disgruntled elements trying to drag the minister’s reputation and that of the nation’s “apolitical military” into a politically motivated media hype aimed at disparaging the personality of the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

He said the story was dead on arrival since it could not pass the test of “reasonability, reality, rationality and believability”.

 The statement reiterated that it was an exercise in futility to concoct false news against  the minister at this crucial time when he is busy  supervising the constitutional role of the military in aid of civil authority to defend the nation’s democracy.