…Says it’s a false story
The Presidency has debunked an alleged advisory from the Department of State Service (DSS) spelling out the risks to national stability should persons of the same faith emerge as president and vice-president of the country in the forthcoming 2023 general elections.
This followed an exclusive report published yesterday by an online news platform, claiming that the Service had noted that the decision of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to nominate a fellow Muslim as vice-presidential candidate for the 2023 presidential election is a tailored recipe for renewed sectarian crises that could destabilise Nigeria.
The report suggested that a DSS memo had been forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to consider the security implications of Tinubus choice before making it public. Quoting an intelligence officer, it claimed that the DSS produced the report and handed a copy to the National Security Adviser, (NSA).
However, in a swift response to the report, the Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity), Garba Shehu, in an issued statement, maintained that there is no DSS advisory before President Buhari on the APC running mate.
While noting that the report is false, the statement said: We wish to advise well-meaning Nigerians to ignore a laughably puerile report by an apparently pirate online newspaper seeking to sow division and chaos on the choice of Governor Kashim Shettima as the running mate of our partys Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
This so-called newspaper is like a deadly virus. Stay safe by keeping away from its toxic reports.
