‘It’s fake news’, Fani-Kayode denies interest in NFA chairmanship position

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has dismissed reports linking him with the chairmanship of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), describing the claims arsenic “fake news.”

In a connection connected Wednesday, Fani-Kayode said immoderate blogs had falsely attributed quotes to him suggesting that helium was funny successful contesting for the NFA chairmanship but had stepped down successful enactment of different candidate.

He powerfully refuted the claims, stressing that helium has nary ties with shot oregon the affairs of the NFA.

The connection connected X reads, “It has been brought to my attraction that fake quotes are being attributed to maine by assorted chartless blogs claiming that I person an involvement successful being Chairman of the NFA and that I person present decided to measurement down from the contention to enactment idiosyncratic else. 

“This is each fake news. I cognize thing astir the NFA, I person nary involvement successful the NFA oregon who leads it, I person nary involvement successful shot and thankfully I person not been approached oregon nominated for specified a presumption by anyone and if I had I would person respectfully declined. 

“I americium not a footballer and I could not attraction little who the NFA Chairman is oregon volition be. 

“The full happening is profoundly insulting and I impulse the 419 and transgression blogs that are attributing these quotes to maine and coming up with specified fake stories to desist from doing truthful and permission maine retired of their mess. 

“I besides impulse members of the nationalist to disregard their rubbish. It is bully aged fashioned fake quality and arsenic it is with each fake quality they person a hidden agenda. 

“Any punctuation oregon communicative that does not emanate from my website (femifanikayode.org), my verified X grip (@realffk) oregon my verified Facebook and Instagram pages is not from me. 

“Anything extracurricular of these platforms are FAKE and I impulse members of the nationalist to work specified reports with caution.”

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