{"id":37982,"date":"2015-04-28T10:32:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T09:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=37982"},"modified":"2015-04-28T10:32:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T09:32:46","slug":"stay-away-from-my-activities-buhari-tells-ait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/stay-away-from-my-activities-buhari-tells-ait\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Away From My Activities, Buhari Tells AIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">President-elect \u00fdMuhammadu Buhari has barred the African Independent<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Television (AIT) from covering his activities, citing issues of \u201cethics<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and standard\u201d that need to be sorted out with the broadcast medium.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Acting on orders on Monday, security operatives at the Defence House,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">where Buhari is currently resident, would not let the AIT\u00fd crew into the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">building.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Buhari received the Cuban and Switzerland ambassadors as well as other<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">guests, but AIT was denied coverage.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Speaking on the issue Garba Shehu, spokesman of the Buhari Campaign<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Organisation, said: \u201cAIT has been asked to step aside based on security<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and family concerns.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIn addition, Buhari has decided that they will have to resolve some<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">issues relating to issues of standard and ethics.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe will be talking with them to try and resolve the matter, but for now<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the station has been asked to stay aside because, like I said, there are<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">some family and security concerns. They have been asked to step down their<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">coverage until we resolve the matter with them on ethics and standards\u00fd.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cYou can quote me that I said that we have asked them to step aside and<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that we are resolving the the issues of ethics and standards with them.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00fdPrior to the March 28 presidential election, AIT aired a series of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">documentaries considered to have disparaged Buhari, his late wife and late<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">daughter, as well as other prominent faces in the All Progressives<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congress (APC).<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect \u00fdMuhammadu Buhari has barred the African IndependentTelevision (AIT) from covering his activities, citing issues of \u201cethicsand standard\u201d that need to be sorted out with the broadcast medium.Acting on orders&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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