Buhari’s UK Trip: Beware, Merchants of Fake News on The Prowl –Presidency

Purveyors of fake and concocted information are currently on overdrive, Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity), made this known in a statement on Monday.

Adesina urged Nigerians to be careful of what they consume as news, and also share with others, particularly from the social media.

According to the statement, “an unfounded information has been making the rounds that President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to travel to the United Kingdom for 20 days, and from there proceed to Saudi Arabia, and then Austria. Fake. It is nothing but falsehood from mischievous minds.”

“Members of the First Family, Ministers, top government officials, the military, and other key institutions, are equally objects of this orchestrated falsehood, coming from enemies of national cohesion.

“We urge Nigerians to be discriminatory about what they accept as credible information, and restrain themselves from sharing what they have not authenticated as genuine. That is how we can all collectively beat the malevolent minds at their pernicious games.”