President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be bothered a dog was named after him and is not behind the arrest or prosecution of the author of the name, his spokesman Garba Shehu said on Thursday.
Mr. Shehu said President Buhari must be having a good laugh over the matter since he loves caricature in newspapers.
A man who named his dog Buhari was arrested by the police reportedly to protect him from being harmed by the president’s sympathisers but many argued that President Buhari was behind his arrest.
His spokesman said in a Facebook post that it was not true.
He said:
“I am thinking of saying, using my own handle that people linking the President to this dog incident are just displaying their ignorance of the type of person he is.
“He enjoys cartoons and likes sharing them. The ones he enjoys the most are those that caricature him. It is cheap and sensational to say he can order a police action against a caricature. When he picks a paper, the first page he reaches for is the cartoon page. He laughs and laughs.
“The President must be having a good laugh over this whole thing.
“People should listen to the real story behind this dog incident and to not waste precious time seeking the hand of the President in a laughable incident”.