Buhari's Media Chat Was Arrangee!- Yemi Adebowale

That Charade Called Presidential Media Chat
If the organisers of the Presidential Media Chat don’t want to invite journalists capable of asking the President critical questions on national issues, then, they should stop this travesty called media chat. What took place on Wednesday night with President Buhari in Abuja was a farce. Three of the invited journalists were too timid to ask critical questions. The only one that tried asking critical questions could not really put them together properly. So, the President got away with largely “make me shine questions.” For about two hours, questions were not raised about the epileptic power supply in this country, gale of retrenchment, the two cars giving to him by the NSA office, dwindling industrial capacity utilization, the 2014 National Conference report, rising inflation, poverty, disease and hunger in our land. The few questions asked about sliding economy and insecurity were timidly presented. 

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