{"id":62337,"date":"2018-05-23T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62337"},"modified":"2018-05-23T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:08:00","slug":"buhari-plans-clampdown-on-media-houses-thisday-sun-ait-independentonline-media-marked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/buhari-plans-clampdown-on-media-houses-thisday-sun-ait-independentonline-media-marked\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Plans Clampdown On Media Houses; ThisDay, Sun, AIT, Independent,Online Media Marked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">As a way of ensuring that opposition parties and elements are completely<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">decimated and shut out of the campaigns leading the 2019 General<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Elections, the APC led Federal Government has concluded arrangements to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">shut and clamp down on electronic, Print and Social Media houses perceived<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">to be hostile to its re-election plans.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This is part of a grounds well conspiracy to deal opposition major blow<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">from which they cannot recover enough to put up any reasonable fight in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the build up to the 2019 campaigns.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Notable among those marked for closure are Africa Independent Television<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">(AIT) and Raypower Radio Stations, independent Newspapers, The Sun,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Thisday and a number of social media platforms considered by the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Government to be its major opposition in the forthcoming campaigns and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">elections.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Recall that early in November 2017, there were reports that the Federal<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Government has begun secret moves towards clamping down on a number of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">online news media, citing \u201cthreat to national security\u201d as guise.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Already, the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed is believed to have set<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">up a committee to work out ways and means of achieving his objectives.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">A pundit who is one and sympathiser of the Buhari administration said last<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">night \u201cthings could become awfully bad for the President and his campaigns<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">for re-election because of such petty and very amateurish tendencies and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">actions of people who are clearly power drunk.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Multiple sources in Lagos and Abuja have confirmed that the mastermind of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">this plot is the Minister for information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">who is believed to be urging the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">provide him with a fait accompli to enable a full execution of the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">project.<\/div>\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>As a way of ensuring that opposition parties and elements are completely decimated and shut out of the campaigns leading the 2019 General Elections, the APC led Federal Government has&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":62212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62337","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari Plans Clampdown On Media Houses; 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