“President Buhari Did Not Say He Was Saying Rubbish During Campaign” – Cola

Earlier today (31st may), a certain topic appeared on this board titled “We Were Saying Rubbish During The Campaign” – President Buhari.
The OP posted ‘The Cable’ online news-media as his source and the thread was pushed to the front-page by some mod.
In fact, though, ‘The Cable’ never titled the article as the OP did, but rather as”I feel pity for Lai Mohammed” -says-Buhari
The part of the article that the OP picked on to spread the misinformation and aided by the mod that pushed it to the front-page is as follows:
“Most of the permanent secretaries were sent out because it was time for some of them to go and for others for one thing or the other. Because were not part of those 16 years this is where we found ourselves and this is no joke.
“We had to cut down half the number of permanent secretaries and then do some cross postings. The permanent secretaries that were there for the past five, seven, 15 years the only thing that they know is how things were done in the previous years. Whatever we did in the campaign, in fact we were saying rubbish and that made it very difficult for us.
“Things were even more difficult during the budget which you all know about. For somebody like me, for the first time I heard what is called padding.
Now it is either the OP and his army of co-travelers on that thread are challenged with comprehension or they are deliberately and mindlessly mischievous and seeking to incite against the president.
The statement of the president should be clear to anybody with a decent education and a claim to literacy that he was talking about the attitude of the perm secs who had spent several years doing things the old way and the only way they knew how. These perm secs could not care less about all the promises of change that the president and his party were making on the campaign trail. In fact to them -these perm secs and directors of MDAs – all the talk of change were all rubbish. He said this was the reason many of them had to be relieved and others were even bold enough to ‘pad’ the budget – something he (the president) had never heard of in all his years in public service).
Summary: “The permanent secretaries believed we were saying rubbish”Comprenez?
This without doubt is what the president was reported to have said. The obvious twist is either a deficit of comprehension skill or a deficit of moral decency. I suspect the latter, though.
May I also request that this ‘explanation’ thread also deserves to be seen by all by being given the attention necessary on the front page. Thanks, sir.