{"id":451851,"date":"2011-07-01T14:11:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/01\/presidency-denies-reuben-abati%e2%80%99s-appointment-as-spokesman\/"},"modified":"2011-07-01T14:11:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:11:33","slug":"presidency-denies-reuben-abatis-appointment-as-spokesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/01\/presidency-denies-reuben-abatis-appointment-as-spokesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency denies Reuben Abati\u2019s appointment as spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"68\">\n<p><strong>\u00a0BY DANIEL IDONOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ABUJA \u2013 THE Presidency, Friday, has distanced itself from reports (not Vanguard) that President Goodluck Jonathan has settled for the appointment of Mr Reuben Abati as his new spokesman, saying that \u201cMr Niboro\u2019s office is not vacant\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most senior aides in Aso Rock who didn\u2019t accompanied the President to the African Union, AU, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, told Vanguard that the Presidency is not surprised by the report, \u201cas many political applicants have recently resorted to the media to announce their dream appointments, without a formal letter from the C-in-C\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The source which preferred anonymity dismissed the reports, saying that \u201d we expected you guys (media) to have speculated the list of the 20 presidential advisers like you did in the case of the ministers. But it\u2019s obvious that you guys don\u2019t have\u00a0anything close to it, this time around; hence you shifted attention to your colleague, Niboro\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not surprised, at all. After all, the media have been in the business of appointing aides to the president lately.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Remember they appointed about three different persons at different times as new Chief of Staff to the President. But what I can tell you, is that, there is absolutely no sense in the reports; and they are outright personal imagination of the authors\u201d, the source said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/07\/presidency-denies-appointment-of-rueben-abati-as-spokesman\/\" title=\"Presidency denies Reuben Abati\u2019s appointment as spokesman\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Presidency denies Reuben Abati\u2019s appointment as spokesman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u00a0BY DANIEL IDONOR ABUJA \u2013 THE Presidency, Friday, has distanced itself from reports (not Vanguard) that President Goodluck Jonathan has settled for the appointment of Mr Reuben Abati as his new spokesman, saying that \u201cMr Niboro\u2019s office is not vacant\u201d. One of the most senior aides in Aso Rock who didn\u2019t accompanied the President to the African Union, AU, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, told Vanguard that the Presidency is not surprised by the report, \u201cas many political applicants have recently resorted to the media to announce their dream appointments, without a formal letter from the C-in-C\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Presidency denies Reuben Abati\u2019s appointment as spokesman - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/01\/presidency-denies-reuben-abatis-appointment-as-spokesman\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Presidency denies Reuben Abati\u2019s appointment as spokesman - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"\u00a0BY DANIEL IDONOR ABUJA \u2013 THE Presidency, Friday, has distanced itself from reports (not Vanguard) that President Goodluck Jonathan has settled for the appointment of Mr Reuben Abati as his new spokesman, saying that \u201cMr Niboro\u2019s office is not vacant\u201d. 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