The Presidency has finally opened up on the crowd that attended the burial ceremony of Abba Kyari, the former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Gudu Cemetery, Abuja.
Talking to newsmen, Garba Shehu, the President’s aide on Media and Publicity, stated that there was nothing they could do to stop the multitude.
Shehu stated that they did not invite the multitude at the funeral and couldn’t have invited troops to flog and chase them away.
However he went ahead to expounded that the burial was delayed in their attempt to maintain social distancing but had to proceed as more people kept coming to the cemetery
“Was there any invitation for the public to come for the burial? Go back to my Twitter handle and read what I posted. From 10am, when we picked up the body at the airport, we sent a message out that the funeral will be private and that the public should please go and pray for Abba Kyari.
“We also said no condolence visits to the President and family. What can we do? Are we going to invite soldiers to flog people who came to pay their last respect to the man?
“We didn’t invite people. We were trying to move people back and observe social distancing and it was delaying the funeral. We just have to do it because people are not ready to leave. What are we going to do?” he asked.
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