On Tuesday, August 20, 2019, the story on the president Sacking his media aides was circulated by a number of blogs and news platform.
While Reacting to the fake news on Twitter, the personal assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmed who was surprised when the news circulated and was tweeted by a blog responded by tweeting , “ Wait, Really?” before the blog retracted the post.
Withinnigeria learnt that the news headline, Buhari Sacks Lauretta Onochie, Bashir Ahmad, Reappoints Adesina, Shehu insinuates the former were fired and replaced by the latter. This was not the case.
Findings revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari did not fire the duo as there was no official report to it and no publication of such by any notable media house in the country.
A reliable source also disclosed that the claim was far from the truth and that Presidency will release a statement to that effect.
Subsequently, the Presidency on Wednesday, did reveal in a press release that it has approved the reappointment of his media aides. Amongst those up for reappointment were Laureta Onochie and Bashir Ahmad.
Conclusively, the story is obviously false as there are no media reports to corroborate its claims.
More so, the Wednesday press release cleared the air on the whole issue and as such it should be disregarded.
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