Nigeria’s Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has dismissed a news report claiming that there was a coup scare in the country, calling it a “heinous act of disinformation” by enemies of the state.
The report, which circulated on some online platforms, alleged that some military officers were plotting to overthrow the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Idris said the report was “unequivocally false” and “the figment of the warped imagination of detractors, whose malicious intent is to destabilise the country and undermine the present administration.”
Idris said the government was committed to the ongoing reforms aimed at rejuvenating the economy and creating a pathway of prosperity for the citizenry.
He said the government would not be distracted or intimidated by the fake news campaign and would exercise its rights within the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to contain rogue actions that threaten national security and democracy.
The Minister urged the public to exercise discernment and refrain from spreading or amplifying the unfounded report, which he said was “strategically planted on some pliant and compromised news platforms to subvert the nation’s democracy.”
Dominica Nwabufo
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