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BY Adoga Michael Oyi
Kassim Afegbua, the spokesman for former Military head of state, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, has revealed what his boss said after the police declared him wanted.
Afegbua reported to the police headquarters in Abuja 48 hours after being declared wanted for the controversial press statement he issued on behalf of his principal.
Arriving at the Louis Edet House of the Nigeria Police Force, Abuja, at about 10:10 a.m., and accompanied by his legal team, led by his lead counsel, Kayode Ajulo, Afegbua said:
“The former president is fully behind me and he had been in touch with me. There’s no need for him to say anything more than he had already said.
It will even interest you to know that when I was declared wanted on Channels TV and Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), my boss, IBB, was the one who called me and said why are they declaring you wanted? Are you a criminal? And we laughed over it.
He also asked if I was on the run and if I have been given invitation and he said, okay, that is interesting. My boss said he heard on the news that they talked about defamation of character and he asked whose character have you defamed?
So, I am very much in touch with him and I am not doing anything out of the blues. He is a man I have been with for the past 14 years as spokesman. Even when I went to serve in my state, I was still very much in touch with him. I have said it before that I am part and parcel of him, we are family and so I don’t have any cause to worry over anything.
I am only here personally because I was declared wanted. I am not on the run, I am not a fugitive to the law and as a responsible Nigerian, I feel it was unwise on the part of the police to declare me wanted when I have not been formally invited. So, I am here to present myself. I am here with my wife.”
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