Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, has explained why Bello Matawalle, the Minister of State for Defence, was not affected by yesterday’s cabinet reshuffle.
Recall that Matawalle, a former governor of Zamfara State, had been accused of ties with bandits.
According to Onanuga, the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, investigated Matawalle on the allegations, and found them to be “mere fabrications”.
Onanuga made the clarifications on Matawalle in an interview on Arise TV, Wednesday.
On Bello Matawalle, Onanuga said: “As far as I know, most of those things are just mere allegations.
“In one of them, I got something like that and sent it to the NSA and asked: ‘Have you heard about this?’
“The NSA said: ‘No. We have probed a lot of those things; they are not true’.
“People are just bringing out all kinds of fake things and allegations. That is why the man (Matawalle) is still in the cabinet.
“The president, I’m sure, has heard many stories about him. For him to be there shows that, like I have said, some of those things have been probed. They have been found not to be true.
“The NSA office has already investigated some of those allegations. They are mere fabrications.”
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