Bayo Onanuga, the Director, Media and Publicity of APC Presidential Campaign Council has denied the story making round that Chief Justice of Nigeria, Oluwakayode Ariwoola disguised to meet President-Elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in London over the last concluded presidential election.
Onanuga in a statement which reads: “Our attention has been drawn to the grossly fake, misleading and malicious story about the Chief Justice of Nigeria Olukayode Ariwoola disguising to meet President-elect Bola Tinubu in London.”
According to him, the story was a pure concoction from the hallucinating minds of hatchet men bent on creating doubts and public distrust about the legitimacy of the recent election, which was won by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“We refute emphatically that there has been no clandestine meeting between the President-elect and the respected Chief Justice of our country, any where. It’s pure fabricated news, groundless in fact and authenticity.”
He added: “To show that the story was a mere salacious fiction, meant to draw traffic to the discredited purveyor, it claimed the Chief Justice left Nigeria for London on 11 March, on a wheel chair to board a plane.”
“The President elect left Nigeria on 21 March, 10 clear days thereafter. What kind of appointment or secret meeting will the two men have arranged in London, with so wide disparate arrival dates, except in the imagination of the false news merchants?”
Speaking further, Onanuga said that the President-elect, left Nigeria on Tuesday and has not been in London.
“He is right now in France to have a deserved rest, after a hectic campaign that began in January 2022. He will go to London thereafter before proceeding to Mecca for the lesser Hajj.”
“As we move towards inauguration on 29 May, 2023, Nigerians should expect more false and salacious news from a section of the Nigerian media, on the payroll of the opposition.”
“We urge the media once again to cross check their information from the President-elect media office before rushing to press.”