The Presidency, Friday, raised the alarm over what it described as a coordinated and orchestrated plan to launch a smear campaign plot against President Muhammadu Buhari.
A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said
“There is a compelling reason to alert the nation of another orchestrated smear campaign against President Muhammadu Buhari, using some online newspapers and blogs.”
Adesina said:”The campaign, scheduled to be launched anytime soon through editorials and purported special investigative stories, is designed to further exacerbate tension in the land, by portraying the President as pandering to ethnic and other primordial tendencies, contrary to his pledge to belong to all Nigerians.”
The presidential spokesman disclosed that “impeccable security findings indicate that those behind the plot have procured online blogs and newspapers, which are to launch coordinated publications, alleging subjugation and suppression of a particular religion and ethnic groups.”
He added that “A specific medium has so far contacted some opinion leaders, especially those very critical of President Buhari.”
Adesina said,”Part of the planned publication is to make unwary readers believe that the President has continually used the powers of his office to shield and protect an ethnic group against crimes of murder, kidnappings, rape and banditry in the southern, middle belt and some northern states.
