Moghalu Makes Ignorance Fashionable –Presidency

The Presidency has stated that it’s either former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Kingsley Moghalu is ignorant or playing petty politics over his comment on President Muhammadu Buhari’s absence at the recently held G7 meeting in France.

In a terse statement Friday by Mallam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity), told the former Presidential candidate of Young  People Party during the last presidential election that “the non-invitation of President Buhari to witness the G7 meeting this year is not a snub. Neither does it diminish the status of Nigeria as the biggest economy on the continent.

Moghalu had tweeted on Thursday: “It’s sad that @NGRPresident of Africa’s supposedly largest economy wasn’t invited to the G7 summit in France but @PaulKagame of Rwanda and @CyrilRamaphosa of South Africa were. Our country should be at the table, not on the menu! Obasanjo, like him or not, was at the table.”

But Shehu responded; “It seems no one clarified to the one-time Presidential Candidate how the G7 secretariat works. If they invite a country with an economy the size of Niger State, not Kano’s, not even Lagos’s does it call for Dr. Moghalu’s lamentation? Today, as we see it, they call this country, tomorrow they decide to have another. It’s entirely up to them.

“Buhari didn’t go to Europe. Europe came to him in Japan, where the EU had him sign an MOU for 50 Million Euro in support to the country’s devastated North East. The joke is not on President Buhari. The joke is on Moghalu for attempting to make ignorance fashionable.”