Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday claimed that President Bola Tinubu is planning to unleash a regime of propaganda in the coming days.
He noted that Tinubu had already appointed over 15 media aides with the sole aim of pushing misinformation as a policy of state and distracting Nigerians from the deep pains his administration has caused them.
Atiku’s special assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, in a statement, said the fake news regarding the lifting of the visa ban by the United Arab Emirates was just a “tip of the iceberg”.
He noted that this has always been Tinubu’s style from his days as governor and leader of his party.
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Atiku said, “From information available to us, Bola Tinubu is set to push propaganda to overdrive as he heads out for the United Nations General Assembly. He will claim to have attracted foreign investments amounting to $100bn but will fail to provide key details. It is all propaganda. It is all a load of baloney. In India, he claimed they had received pledges of over $14bn just as his predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari, claimed in 2018 that he had secured pledges of up to $6bn. This is nothing but audio investments.
“Last month, the NNPC claimed to have obtained a loan of $3bn with which it would help stabilise the naira. We raised the alarm that it was all a ruse to deceive Nigerians. Now, we have been justified as the naira is now approaching $1/N1,000 on the black market.
