Renovation delays Buhari’s movement to villa

Okuande Adekunle |

President Mohammadu Buhari’s delay to move to Presidential Villa is largely due to renovation that is going on there.

The Senior Special Assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu said this, calling on the public to debunk rumour that the president is doing spiritual cleansing on Aso Rock Villa.

Rumours were being peddling around that President Muhammadu Buhari had refused to move into the Presidential Villa because of purported advice from Senegalese spiritualists.

According to Shehu, the Presidency expressed “utter embarrassment at such suggestion, saying, “President Buhari is a practising Muslim who believes his fate belongs to God. No true believer combines faith in God and reliance on the power of ordinary mortals, who can neither protect themselves, nor protect others from the hands of fate.”

Malam Shehu said the so-called “spiritual cleansing of the Aso Rock Villa by Senegalese marabouts before President Buhari moves into the villa” was the figment of the imagination of rumour mongers.

The statement said it was ridiculous to attribute President Buhari’s delay in moving into the villa to any advice from fictitious marabouts.