Buhari: Overzealous aides, not me, barred AIT

President-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, declared that some overzealous aides barred African Independent Television (AIT) crew from covering his event last Monday, an action which caused public uproar.
He said he was never consulted nor informed about the AIT barring and only became aware of the matter after the public uproar it generated.
He, therefore, instructed all his staff, including the personnel attached directly to him, to steer clear of all dealings with the media, and leave all media affairs to his official media team.
In a statement in Abuja by Directorate of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Buhari aligned himself with the pronouncement of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), which had earlier expressed disagreement with the temporary barring of AIT from covering his media affairs.
“I would like everyone to, henceforth, stay within his/her defined area of responsibility,” Buhari said.
The President-elect added that his media team should be left to deal with their media colleagues as they best knew how.
“The time of CHANGE has come,” he said, “and we must avoid making the same mistakes that the outgoing government made.”