on Monday expelled PUNCH’s State House Correspondent, Olalekan Adetayo,
from the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Abubakar had earlier summoned Adetayo to his office and questioned him on
two reports he considered uncomplimentary of Buhari and his
administration.
He referred to the lead story of SUNDAY PUNCH of April 23, 2017, titled
“Fresh anxiety in Aso Rock over Buhari’s poor health” and queried the
motive behind it.
He also referred to our corespondent’s column, Aso Rock Lens, published on
Saturday, April 22, 2017, and titled “Seat of power’s event centres going
into extinction.”
Abubakar asked one of his men to go and take our correspondent’s statement
and revert to him.
He thereafter directed the Officer in Charge, Department of State
Services, Victor Nwafor, to withdraw our correspondent’s accreditation tag
and lead him out of the premises after retrieving his personal belongings
from the Press Gallery of the Council Chambers.
Nwafor left an instruction at the Admin Reception that Adetayo should no
longer be allowed into the premises after which he handed him over to
another security operative who led our correspondent to where his car was
parked to ensure he left the premises as instructed.