BUHARI’S TRIP: Northern govs not holding Osinbajo hostage, Presidency asserts

The Presidency has debunked the rumour making rounds that the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo was being pressured by some governors to resign his position.

The internet and social media have been saturated with rumours of Osinbajo, who is at the moment Acting President following President Muhammadu Buhari’s medical leave in London, United Kingdom, being asked to resign his office.

Special Adviser to the president on Political Affairs in the office of the Vice President, Femi Ojudu, said there is no truth in the stories that Osinbajo is being held hostage by some governors who are trying to compel him to resign.

The rumour had emanated following the rumoured death of President Buhari and a purported meeting of the northern governors on Tuesday.

But reacting on the issue in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja entitled “State of the Nation,” Ojudu, described the rumour as false, saying there was no atom of truth of any pressure for the Acting President to resign.

“I have read many ridiculous stories saying the Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is being held hostage by some governors who are trying to compel him to resign. I have equally received several calls regarding this. The story is simply not true. It is a fabrication. Don’t be a purveyor of fake news,” Ojodu said.

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Meanwhile, the Minister of Culture and Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, said there is no iota of truth in the messages being circulated on the health of the President, who is hale and hearty, and the purported emergency meetings of the State Governors in Abuja or anywhere.

He said the naysayers have also resorted to the use of ethnicity and religion as tools to divide Nigerians, overheat the polity and cause panic among the citizenry, in addition to using fake news and disinformation to distort government activities.

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