Buhari never ordered arrest of Pinnick – Presidency

The Presidency has described as fake, a press statement in
circulation to the effect that President Muhammadu Buhari has
ordered the arrest and prosecution of the President of the Nigeria
Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick.

According to a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by Garba
Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media &
Publicity), “it is fake news because anyone familiar with the
President’s unmitigated and unshakable commitment to the due
processes of the law will not make such assumptions of the
President.”

The statement added that the position of the President that
allegations of criminal nature should be addressed only by
investigation and law enforcement agencies, within the framework of
the law has not changed.

It added: “It is not in the nature of President Buhari to say go
and arrest that man or woman as formed the practice in the
past.

“Rather, he allows all allegations of this nature to be
addressed using the mechanism of the rule of law even as law
enforcement and investigation agencies should not in any way be
hampered in performing their duties.

At the same time, nobody should drop names to seek to influence
the course of those investigations.”