Buhari’s Former Spokesman Drops BOMB! The REAL Reason For “Presidential Villa Rats” Revealed! You Won’t Believe It!

Garba Shehu, former spokesman for ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally cleared up why he claimed rats had invaded the Presidential Villa in 2017. Shehu revealed he concocted the story to divert public attention from Buhari’s poor health and his inability to resume duties after a period of absence due to sickness.

The former Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Buhari shared this in his recently launched book, ‘According to the President: Lessons from a Presidential Spokesperson’s Experience’.

In Chapter 10, titled, ‘Rats, Spin and All That’, Shehu explained that an issue arose after a fellow media aide, Bashir Ahmad, announced Buhari’s return to Nigeria and that he would be working from home.

Shehu recounted, “With reporters wanting to know more, the number of calls increased, with some, including the BBC Hausa, interrogating me on the type of rats we had in the Villa that could eat wire cables.”

He continued, “To get them (journalists) off my back, I referred them to the strange rats that invaded the country in the 1980s during the rice armada that came here aboard ships bringing the commodity from Southeast Asia.”

“At a later meeting, the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo asked me why I had toed that line of story,” Shehu said. “I said to them that the choice I made was deliberate: I wanted the discussion to shift, to move to any other issue besides the president’s health and his ability to continue in office as the leader of the country. In my view, that spin succeeded. Both of them disagreed, saying that this was well off the mark.”