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Video of flooded Abuja airport is fake, says Buhari’s aide
A viral video purportedly showing the newly renovated Abuja airport overtaken by floods is reportedly fake according to a tweet by Tolu Ogunlesi, media aide to President Buhari.
“With this certainty of yours one would assume you knew exactly where/when this video was taken—but you don’t. It’s neither Abuja nor recent,” Ogunlesi posted on his Twitter time-line.
Read also: Floods overtake newly renovated Abuja airport (Video)
The Abuja airport was closed down on March 8th for renovation and later opened six weeks later after renovation works on the Airport Runway in order to meet International Civil Aviation standards.
In the short video of the supposed airport which reportedly cost N5.8 billion to renovate, the tarmac is overtaken by water after a heavy rainfall with passengers in the video seen taking off their shoes to board the airport shuttle to the lobby.
The video was also thumbed down as fake in a Whatsapp message by Professor Sani Abubakar Mashi, the Director General of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (MIMET) who was responding to an inquiry about the development sent by Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika.
An aviation news site also claimed that the video of the flooded airport was shot three years ago in the South East Nigeria and not in Abuja.
Another online portal claims the video was made in Lagos, and is that the flight is Owerri bound.
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Animashaun Ayodeji
May 15, 2017 at 5:39 pm
I wondered when I saw the vide too, the renovation was completed less than a month ago, how can it gets flooded just like that? People with different fake news are simply irresponsible
Agbor Chris
May 15, 2017 at 5:41 pm
Some people are enemies of progress, their motif was to spoil business for the contactor who renovated the airport and tarnish the image of the Federal government.
Joy Madu
May 16, 2017 at 3:32 am
Nigeria with fake news Na God go help us
Anita Kingsley
May 15, 2017 at 9:38 pm
Watching the video one would know it’s fake, there’s no point stressing on it.
yanju omotodun
May 16, 2017 at 3:13 am
I was at Abuja airport yesterday, and I witnessed the new look of the Airport and there is no how the rain will fall to flood the Airport because of the way they constructed the drainage and even the runaway itself.
JOHNSON PETER
May 16, 2017 at 3:32 am
High your moral so we can say you are used to taking flight, but why can’t you upload your own video to counter the fake video?
seyi jelili
May 16, 2017 at 3:54 am
We can’t fold our arms to see evil ones spreading fake rumours and news to incite confusion, let’s be matured enough
tinubuthief
May 16, 2017 at 6:43 am
What do you expect from the evil regime