Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, ShehuGarba has spoken about the frustration president Buhari experienced from media organizations, NTA and AIT during his presidential election campaign earlier this year. Speaking at The Red Media Summit in Lagos, today Oct. 15th, Garba said“Americans say that elections arewon on the dollar. It’s very improbable that anybody can win an election without money.We didn’t have advertising money on our campaign. Even when we had little money to spend on advertising, the Nigerian Television Authority was not making available to us slots, neither was AIT. I remember on a particular night I called NTA, they had 16 slots of one minute adverts and I said Iwanted to buy one minute for the Buhari campaign, they said all 16 had been sold.Some other instances that exposed the partisan nature of the NTA. Money was returned to us, from AIT money was returned to us. They simply won’t advertise for us.”he saidDuring his speech, Shehu Garba narrated how the prompt spread of news of social media helped him go through a military seige at his home during the campaign period“The day there was a security siege at my home, Iwoke up to see that my house had been surroundedby armedpolicemen in the course of the campaign. In fact it was the cocking of their guns that roseme and my family members from our sleep. Only to discover that tens of policemen, police vehicles, and some other unidentified vehicles darkened our windows around my home. The first thing I did was to say ‘Whowill help me out of this situation?’I needed to expose what was going on, and the‎ first man I reached was Adebola Williams of Statecraft. Adebola began to announce on Facebook and Twitter from that moment until the security elements realized that the whole world was looking at what they weredoing, because I remained indoors throughout the siege. Of course it was much later that we came to know why they had come. Even the APC Presidential Campaign was penetrated by fifth columnists, and I will make this confession, because a day before that siege we had had a meeting with the security committee at which we agreed that we were goingto run a story announcing that the National Security Adviser at that time, Mr. Sambo Dasuki, was staging a second coup d’etat against Muhammadu Buhari. The former National Security Adviser was involved ina coup that threw out Muhammadu Buharias military president in 1984. This time around, all the things that followed, the postponement of the election on account of this and that and a lot of the thinking of the campaign was that this was yet another coupbeing hatched by the National Security Adviser and we eventually discovered that this siege on ourhomes was to pre-empt the story.‎” he said"

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