The Presidency has disclosed that someone obtained and
leaked the draft of President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech hours before the
national broadcast on Monday.
This was disclosed by the Special Adviser to the President
on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, when he appeared on TVC News.
The leaked version of the president’s speech was full of
errors and was already circulating on social media before the actual broadcast
to the nation at 8pm.
Adesina was asked to clear the confusion on the lockdown
where some newspapers reported different dates, and he said, “There is just one
authentic copy of the broadcast, which is the one released from the media
office.
“But then, I recognise that a couple of hours before the
broadcast itself, a copy of the purported speech had been circulating
particularly on WhatsApp. If you compare the two, yes there are some
similarities but then, there are also wide differences.
“You have just mentioned the effective day particularly of
the gradual easing of the lockdown. What happened was that somebody got hold of
the initial draft of the broadcast and played hanky panky with it by releasing
it through the social media.
“If you know the processes that a broadcast goes through
before it gets recorded – the script will originate from the relevant
government agency, department, parastatal of ministry, whoever heads that
agency, ministry or parastatal sign up on it and then they sent it to the
presidential office.
“When it gets to the presidential office, it gets through a
number of hands again, because the president’s thoughts must be infused and
injected into that draft.
“There are some things that may be in it that the president
may completely not agree with.
“Finally, it comes to the media office, and I sign on it,
which I also did yesterday before the broadcast was recorded – I signed on the
final copy before the broadcast was recorded.
“So some hours before the recording was played back, I saw
something circulating on social media, I knew that that was not the copy that I
signed off on. Then we began to investigate. It has been found out that the
original script from inception was what somebody laid hands-on and released to
the social media.
“Well, mainstream media knows how we release our statements
– whatever documents that we are releasing. They should know how to
authenticate it. It comes from the media office.
“So, if any mainstream media is now taking its information
from the social media, that mainstream media is to be blamed because we duly
released the authentic copy of that broadcast by 8:06 PM. So the mainstream
media should not have depended on a leaked copy which turns out to have many
discrepancies compared with the original and final copy.”
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Okay, so the speech was recorded & played back for us to hear/see. It was not a live address
ReplyDeleteD speech wasn't live.they would av rehearsed to get a better one.dis country is a scam.
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