State House Correspondent of Punch newspapers, Olalekan Adetayo, was on Monday expelled from the Presidential Villa on the order of the Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the President, Bashir Abubakar, the media organisation has reported.
Abubakar was said to have summoned Adetayo to his office over two reports considered uncomplimentary of the President.
One of the stories appeared in Sunday Punch of April 23, 2017 with the title “Fresh anxiety in Aso Rock over Buhari’s poor health”.
The other is an article in Adetayo’s column, Aso Rock Lens, published on Saturday, April 22, 2017 titled “Seat of power’s event centres going into extinction.”
Abubakar reportedly asked one of his men to take the reporter’s statement and revert to him.
He thereafter directed the Officer in Charge, Department of State Services, Victor Nwafor, to withdraw Adetayo’s accreditation tag and lead him out of the premises after retrieving his personal belongings from the Press Gallery of the Council Chambers.
“Nwafor left an instruction at the Admin Reception that Adetayo should no longer be allowed into the premises after which he handed him over to another security operative who led our correspondent to where his car was parked to ensure he left the premises as instructed,” the newspaper wrote.
