The minister of information, Lai Mohammed has said that the opposition are disappointed that President Muhammadu Buhari has refused to die and accused them of spreading false news about the president.
Mohammed made the allegations on Thursday, December 13, when speaking during a visit to Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state, The Cable reports.
He accused critics of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of spreading fake news because they do not have achievements to debate on.
The minister blamed the opposition for the rumour that claimed President Muhammadu Buhari has been cloned and it is now one Jibril from Sudan.
“Fake news has been on the rise because the opposition cannot debate on our governments whether at state or federal level on any issue. We challenge the opposition on the achievements it made either in agriculture, security, in the economy or fighting corruption, ” Mohammed said.
“Rather they have found out that the most potent weapon is fake news. They claim that the president that we are seeing today has been cloned and it is one Jibril from Sudan. Why are doing this? They are disappointed that the president refused to die after his illness.
“Just some days ago they reported me as saying that Mr President does not know the way to his office because he has lost his memory and nobody ever bothered to ask ‘when did I say this, where did I say this.
“We have it on good authority that the opposition consultants from various parts of the world and whose only duty is to churn out fake news.”
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