Buhari, APC, And AIT By Chidi Oguamanam

Many partisan and non-partisan Nigerians bear witness to AIT’s cash-and-carry deals with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the build-up to the just concluded presidential elections. Specifically, the AIT served as the propaganda outlet for the PDP in running, among other things, what I characterized elsewhere as PDP’s ad hominem documentaries of red herring against Gen.

 Many partisan and non-partisan Nigerians bear witness to AIT’s cash-and-carry deals with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the build-up to the just concluded presidential elections. Specifically, the AIT served as the propaganda outlet for the PDP in running, among other things, what I characterized elsewhere as PDP’s ad hominem documentaries of red herring against Gen. Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) party leader, Mr. Tinubu. The latter is presently in court against the AIT on the same matter. The AIT is a private communication and media enterprise in the business of serving the broadcast or other media and public relations needs of its clientele.

True.But the AIT as a platform for the practice of diverse media-related professions also has legal, ethical and, indeed, public interest responsibilities for which it should be held to account in accordance with our laws where they are broken. It is naturally self-evident that Buhari may have reservation against the AIT. But as a politician, a public and historic personality and, lately, a President-in-waiting, coverage of Buhari by the media is not a matter over which he has a choice.