Presidency debunks claim of Buhari’s tour to UK, Saudi Arabia

President Muhammadu Buhari is not scheduled to travel to either United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia or Australia as portrayed by “fake news merchant”, Presidency warned.

In a statement by Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, not only are the fake news makers limiting their activities about the first family but also to other government officials.

The statement reads:

BEWARE, MERCHANTS OF FAKE NEWS ON THE PROWL – PRESIDENCY

Purveyors of fake and concocted Information are currently on overdrive, and Nigerians are urged to be careful what they consume as news, and also share with others, particularly from the social media.

An unfounded information has been making the rounds that President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to travel to the United Kingdom for 20 days, and from there proceed to Saudi Arabia, and then Austria. Fake. It is nothing but falsehood from mischievous minds.

Members of the First Family, Ministers, top government officials, the military, and other key institutions, are equally objects of this orchestrated falsehood, coming from enemies of national cohesion.

We urge Nigerians to be discriminatory about what they accept as credible information, and restrain themselves from sharing what they have not authenticated as genuine. That is how we can all collectively beat the malevolent minds at their pernicious games.