I never said APC’ll have 30 states in Nigeria by 2030 – Information Minister, Idris

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has dismissed reports credited to him that by 203, the fig of governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, successful the state would beryllium 30, leaving the remaining six to absorption parties.

Idris, who spokes astatine the Progrssives Governors’ Summit for commissioners of accusation for APC-controlled states successful Madiguri, Borno State, past week, besides charged the commissioners to recognise the relation of accusation management, particularly astatine a clip accusation was being utilized arsenic a limb again st the country.

The curate arsenic spokesperson of the national government, helium couldn’t person made specified a statement, adding that the connection was made the National Chairman of APC, Prof. Yilwatda Nentawe.

On his complaint to the commissioners, the curate said: ”Distinguished commissioners of information, colleagues successful nationalist service, I privation to recognise your pivotal relation successful accusation absorption and dissemination.

”In an epoch wherever accusation is some a instrumentality of improvement and a limb of conflict, you are the architects of nationalist knowing and the archetypal enactment of defence for our nation’s integrity. We conscionable astatine a captious juncture, wherever the planetary accusation abstraction is being weaponised against our nation.

”We are present confronting a deliberate and malicious run to falsely statement Nigeria a ‘genocide destination.’ This is not specified misinformation; it is simply a coordinated disinformation cognition designed to incite panic, fracture nationalist unity, harm our planetary standing, and scare distant the concern we truthful urgently need. Your relation has ne'er been much vital.
”Our archetypal strategical imperative, therefore, is to disarm and dislodge this corrosive narrative. We indispensable garbage to amplify the terminology of our detractors. Instead, our messaging indispensable beryllium proactive, grounded successful verifiable facts, and focused connected the world of our ongoing efforts toward security, stability, and nationalist cohesion.
”This infinitesimal demands that we reenforce our strategical counter-voice, systematically deconstructing these unsafe falsehoods with data, adept testimony, and almighty narratives of assemblage resilience and inter-ethnic cooperation.

”We indispensable demystify naysayers and reassure the nationalist by repurposing analyzable authorities initiatives into accessible impervious points of our committedness to unity and security. Furthermore, we indispensable forge a agreed accusation front, partnering with governors, assemblage leaders, accepted rulers, and civilian nine to make a chorus of credible voices that collectively refute this mendacious communicative and affirm our shared identity.
”To bash this effectively, we indispensable maestro the integer battlefield. The upcoming UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Institute successful Abuja is simply a nationalist priority. It volition equip your teams to forensically debunk falsehoods, hint malicious campaigns, and saturate the integer abstraction with credible, engaging contented that reclaims our nationalist story.
”Central to this effort is the National Values Charter, a captious cause of alteration and nationalist reorientation that volition soon beryllium unveiled by President Tinubu.

”The Charter, a instauration of the National Orientation Agency, NOA, 1 of 8 agencies nether the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, is structured to infuse patriotism, support the state and citizens, and unify astir 1 indivisible country.

”The National Values Charter volition undeniably beryllium the astir potent counter-narrative to antagonistic overseas mischaracterisation of Nigeria. The Charter defines who we are: a radical committed to unity successful diversity, resilience, and communal respect. I complaint america to marque this Charter the instauration of each state-level communication, utilizing it to actively beforehand a communicative of shared individuality that renders divisive labels meaningless.”

Speaking connected the accomplishment of President Bola Tinubu’s authorities frankincense far, helium said: ”We indispensable proclaim the large show of the APC medication nether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a reformer second-to-none, who is gradually starring america towards economical efficiency, translating policies into measurable impact, successful narration to industrialisation, infrastructure, competitiveness, inclusion, sustainable institutions, and unlocking investment.

”In different words, we are talking astir the Renewed Hope Agenda, which archetypal started with the emphatic removal of the rentier oil...