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The media bureau of erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar has dismissed arsenic mendacious reports claiming helium promised to prioritise the interests of the Yoruba taste radical if elected president successful 2027.
Several online platforms connected Wednesday had attributed the connection to 1 Kola Johnson, described arsenic Atiku’s “media consultant.”
But successful a rebuttal issued connected Thursday, Atiku’s media adviser, Paul Ibe, said the erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner ne'er engaged Johnson successful immoderate capacity, stressing that the reports were “fabricated and misleading.”
“Our findings constituent straight to the Presidency, which successful its desperation to smear absorption leaders, has resorted to hiring faceless mercenaries to fabricate fake stories and circulate unauthorized statements connected Atiku,” Ibe said.
He described arsenic “particularly offensive” the assertion that an Atiku medication would beryllium dominated by 1 taste group, insisting it was portion of a broader run of disinformation.
According to Ibe, “Atiku Abubakar has ne'er engaged 1 Kola Johnson arsenic a media consultant, aide, oregon associate. Any connection issued successful that sanction is fake and should beryllium disregarded. We impulse media houses that person published specified falsehoods to instantly retract them.”
The media adjutant further cautioned journalists and the nationalist to beryllium vigilant against propaganda and misinformation, accusing the medication of President Bola Tinubu of sponsoring fabricated narratives to undermine absorption figures.
He reiterated that immoderate authentic connection from the erstwhile vice president indispensable travel done the Atiku Media Office and beryllium signed either by him oregon his peculiar adjunct connected nationalist communications.
The station Atiku ne'er vowed to prioritise Yoruba involvement successful 2027 — Media aide appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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