Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused the Presidency of orchestrating a disinformation campaign aimed at damaging his reputation.<\/p>\n
In a statement signed by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, Atiku alleged that the Presidency was hiring \u201cfaceless mercenaries\u201d to fabricate stories and release unauthorised press statements in his name.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur findings point directly to the Presidency, which in its desperation to smear opposition leaders, has resorted to hiring faceless mercenaries to circulate fake statements under Atiku\u2019s name,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
One such claim suggested that an Atiku-led administration would be dominated by a single ethnic group \u2014 a narrative his office dismissed as a calculated propaganda strategy \u201cdesigned to ridicule Atiku in the media.\u201d<\/p>\n
The statement clarified that Atiku had never engaged one Kola Johnson as a consultant, aide, or associate, urging media houses that carried the false report to retract it immediately.<\/p>\n
Atiku also accused the Tinubu administration of compromising journalists to spread misinformation. \u201cWe caution Nigerians, especially the media, to remain vigilant against the propaganda schemes of the Tinubu administration,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n
Reiterating his channels of official communication, Atiku\u2019s office stressed that authentic information is only released through the Atiku Media Office, signed either by Paul Ibe, Media Adviser, or AbdulRasheed Shehu, Special Assistant on Public Communications.<\/p>\n
\u201cEditors and media gatekeepers are strongly advised to verify with the AMO before publication,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused the Presidency of orchestrating a disinformation campaign aimed at damaging his reputation. In a statement signed by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, Atiku alleged that the Presidency was hiring \u201cfaceless mercenaries\u201d to fabricate stories and release unauthorised press statements in his name. \u201cOur findings point directly to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Atiku accuses the Presidency of orchestrating fake statements to smear him, warning Nigerians and media to stay vigilant.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8347,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343\/revisions\/8347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}