Presidency has denied that President Buhari’s flight developed fault mid-air.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Presidency has faulted reports that the aircraft on which President Muhammadu Buhari travelled to the United States of America (U.S.) developed fault mid-air.
A section of the Media (Gatekeepers News not included) had reported that President Muhammadu Buhari and the delegation that recently travelled with him to the United States escaped an air mishap after the presidential jet marked 5N-FGT suddenly developed a fault while they were returning to Nigeria.
Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina denied the report while speaking at the public presentation of a book in Abuja, FCT.
Adesina described the reports published in some online platforms as an exemplar of fake news that has become a major threat to information dissemination in the country.
He also expressed disappointment that members of the Yoruba group, Afenifere, allowed themselves to be misled by fake news about his recent comparison between Buhari and some past political leaders.
He urged traditional media and professional journalists to be more careful because the digital media appear to be dictating the pace for the traditional media.
Adesina said, “It didn’t happen. I was on that flight. We took off from New York, went straight to Santa Maria in Portugal where we re-fuelled. We took off again and flew straight to Nigeria.
“Where is the mishap? It is a lie; it never happened. Do you know the number of people that have been misled by this fake news? Fake news is a problem not only to Nigeria, but to the whole world. The traditional media should be careful of fake news, because we must first have a country before digital media can be useful to us. We must not allow digital media to be used to destroy our country. Digital media is good, but there is evil embedded in it.”
