Presidency
has allegedly directed media houses owned by the federal government operating
in the North to stop airing campaign programmes featuring Alhaji
AbdulMajid
Danbirni, an active campaigner of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Accoding to Thisday live, Danbilki,
who supposed to appear on Saturday for a two-hour live Hausa Radio programme of
FRCN Kaduna titled “Hannu da Yawa” has been stopped over an alleged directive
to stop the programme from a Presidential aide.
Addressing
journalists in Kano on Saturday, Danbilki alleged that some aides of President
Buhari, who were not happy with the programme, have connived with FRCN
officials to stop him from conducting the programme in all radio stations owned
by federal government in the north.
According to
him, the FRCN zonal coordinator and two other informed him that the
two-hour-programme, which was supposed to be aired on Saturday, has been
suspended without giving him concrete reasons.
He alleged
that some aides of the President were angry with him due to his stance in
campaigning for President Buhari since 2013 to date.
But reacting
to the issue, the zonal Director of FRCN Kaduna, Mr. Buhari Auwalu said “it is
not true that the station banned Danbilki from using the Station.”
Auwalu
stated that nobody from Presidency directed us to stop him and noted that “what
happened was that Abdulmajid Danbilki was due to feature in a Hausa weekly
programme, ‘Hanu Da Yawa’, and we told him on arrival that he should postpone
it to next week so that we will be able to sort out some issues of ethics with
the NBC and also deal with some problems that had to do with INEC on
electioneering campaign guidelines.”
“And that is
all, but in anger and frustration, Danbilki bolted out of our office, saying he
will not do the programme again, and on the Pyramid Kano you should know that
what is applicable to FRCN its FM stations”, Auwalu added.
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