PRESS RELEASE
Attention of wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari has been drawn to some media publications and releases purporting illegal detention of her Aide De Camp (ADC) over allegations of fraud.

The story as it pertains to her ADC, Mr Sani Baban-Inna has it that he has been detained on the orders of Mrs Buhari for dropping her name and defrauding unsuspecting officials and associates. She wishes to use this opportunity to refute such allegation and to state that she had no hand in his arrest and detention.

Baban-Inna has been her ADC since 2016 and has been associated with her ever since. To the utter dismay of Mrs Buhari, he has used the opportunity to defraud unsuspecting associates and officials as initial investigations have shown.

Nigeria Police Force, his employers arrested him to investigate allegations leveled against him; that, being within their jurisdiction.

She therefore wishes to use this opportunity to inform the general public that she has never sent any of her staff to collect any favours on her behalf or on behalf of her children and will never do so. She is therefore imploring anyone that has been defrauded by Baban-Inna to get across to him to retrieve whatever he took from them. Mrs Buhari wishes to reiterate that she would not condone fraudulent behavior by any of her staff.

She uses this opportunity to call on all those in positions of authority to rise above intimidation by their aides and deal with such attitudes as extortion by name-dropping, especially within the Presidency. As she always emphasizes, this government was voted into office based on the trust and confidence of the people.

• Suleiman Haruna, Director of Information to Wife of the President, State House, Abuja