‘No Rift Between Osinbajo, el-Rufai’
The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media and Publicity to Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), Mr Laolu Akande, has described report of
rift between Osinbajo and Kaduna State governor Nasir el’Rufai as “a
bunch of lies.’’
Speaking yesterday in Abuja during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Akande questioned the credibility of the report and described it as “sponsored attempt by political dissidents’’ whose purpose is to provoke acrimony in the country.
He added that the report was consistent with similar other baseless reports published online against top officials of the presidency, saying that it lacked evidence or details.
NAN recalled that the report claimed that el-Rufai allegedlyinsulted Osinbajo which prompted the vice president to walk out of a meeting being chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Rock Villa.
But Akande insisted that the relationship between Osinbajo and el’Rufai was cordial in spite of the smear campaign to disparage them.
He said that there was no meeting anywhere where the VP engaged in altercation with el’Rufai, neither was there a work out.
He said, “There is no truth to the story. It is outright falsehood. This is an invention; somebody sat somewhere and invented a lie. It is outright fabrication.
Akande said that the VP and el-Rufai had been friendly even before they got to their current positions.
The SSA advised Nigerians to be wary of false publications by non-professionals.
He said: “I think it is important for those of us in this profession to speak out at this kind of recklessness. It is not journalism at all. This is a journalistic scandal.”
Speaking yesterday in Abuja during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Akande questioned the credibility of the report and described it as “sponsored attempt by political dissidents’’ whose purpose is to provoke acrimony in the country.
He added that the report was consistent with similar other baseless reports published online against top officials of the presidency, saying that it lacked evidence or details.
NAN recalled that the report claimed that el-Rufai allegedlyinsulted Osinbajo which prompted the vice president to walk out of a meeting being chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Rock Villa.
But Akande insisted that the relationship between Osinbajo and el’Rufai was cordial in spite of the smear campaign to disparage them.
He said that there was no meeting anywhere where the VP engaged in altercation with el’Rufai, neither was there a work out.
He said, “There is no truth to the story. It is outright falsehood. This is an invention; somebody sat somewhere and invented a lie. It is outright fabrication.
Akande said that the VP and el-Rufai had been friendly even before they got to their current positions.
The SSA advised Nigerians to be wary of false publications by non-professionals.
He said: “I think it is important for those of us in this profession to speak out at this kind of recklessness. It is not journalism at all. This is a journalistic scandal.”
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