FCT, Abuja – Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu tried to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians with the old video on the #Endbadgovernance protests.
Atiku said Tinubu and his media handlers attempted to distract Nigerians by portraying the president as being compassionate.
The media adviser to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Paul Ibe, said this in a statement issued in Abuja, on Thursday, August 8, Vanguard reports.
Ibe described the use of an old video as a cover-up for Tinubuâs poor outing during the national broadcast on the #Endbadgovernance protests.
According to The Punch, Atiku added that Tinubuâs government has adopted propaganda as a state policy.
Atikuâs media aide said an old video of President Tinubu appealing to Nigerians shows the current government flip-flops and trial-and-error policies.
Meanwhile, TimesNow.com.ng reported that the presidency urged Nigerians to ignore the text of an alleged broadcast said to have been made by President Tinubu.
The Special Adviser Information and Strategy to the President, Bayo Onanuga, said the fake text is the handiwork of mischief makers.
Onanuga said those behind the document are bent on sowing confusion and chaos in the country as President Tinubu has not made any broadcast
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
