President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari, has barred the African
Independent Television (AIT), from covering his activities until they
sort out their ethics and standards.
Buhari reportedly gave the
order through his security team, who ordered AIT’s crew out of the
Defence House during the Cuban Ambassador’s visit.
APC’s Presidential Campaign Organisation spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, explained in details the reason for the ban.
“AIT has been asked to stay aside based on security and family
concerns. In addition, Gen Buhari has decided that they will have to
resolve some issues relating to standard and ethics,” he said.
“We
will be talking with them to try and resolve the matter but for now the
station has been asked to stay aside because like I said there are some
family and security concerns. They have been asked to step down their
coverage until we resolve the matter with them on ethics and standards.”
Shehu however denied that the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) has been barred along with AIT.
He
added: “Yes you can quote me that I said that we have asked them to
step aside and that we are resolving the the issues of ethics and
standards with them.” APC and Buhari constantly spoke about AIT’s ‘hate campaign’ against them during his election campaign.
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