The Director of Media and Publicity of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Bayo Onanuga, has debunked news making rounds that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the President-elect held a secret meeting with the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola in London.
According to Onanuga, the report claimed that the CJN disguised and met with Tinubu in London, arriving there in a wheelchair and checking into an unknown hotel, and described the report as grossly fake, misleading and malicious.
The Director of Media and Publicity in a press statement noted that no such meeting held between the two leaders pointing out that the concoction must have been issued from the hallucinating minds of hatchet men bent on creating doubts and public distrust about the legitimacy of the recent election won by his principal.
“Our attention has been drawn to the grossly fake, misleading and malicious story about the Chief Justice of Nigeria Olukayode Ariwoola disguising to meet President-elect Bola Tinubu in London.
“The story was a pure concoction from the hallucinating minds of hatchet men bent on creating doubts and public distrust about the legitimacy of our recent election, which was won by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The statement added, “We refute emphatically that there has been no clandestine meeting between the President-elect and the respected Chief Justice of our country, anywhere. It’s pure fabricated news, groundless in fact and not authentic.
“To show that the story was a mere salacious fiction, meant to draw traffic to the discredited purveyor, it claimed the Chief Justice left Nigeria for London on 11 March, on a wheel chair to board a plane.
“The President-elect left Nigeria on 21 March, 10 clear days thereafter. What kind of appointment or secret meeting will the two men have arranged in London, with such widely disparate arrival dates, except in the imagination of the false news merchants?”
Onanugaa, while confirming that Tinubu left Nigeria on Tuesday bound for France, and was there for a deserved rest, stressing however, that the President -elect would be in London before heading to Saudi for the lesser Hajj.
As the swearing in draws near, he warned that more such fake news will hit the airwaves and urged the media to cross check their facts
“We can confirm that the President-elect, who left Nigeria Tuesday, has not been in London. He is right now in France to have a deserved rest, after a hectic campaign that began in January 2022.
“He will go to London before he proceeds to Mecca for the lesser Hajj.
“As we move towards inauguration on 29 May, 2023, Nigerians should expect more false and salacious news from a section of the Nigerian media, on the payroll of the opposition.
“We urge the media once again to cross check their information from the President-elect media office before rushing to press,” Onanuga added.
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