- By Femi Alabi
The Federal Government has said that the report of a coup was just the figment of the imagination of detractors, whose intention was to destabilise the country and undermine the present administration.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, who described it as false said it was now clear that some desperate individuals had resorted to publishing fake news to erode public trust in the government and sow the seed of discord in the country.
He noted that government would exercise its rights within the laws of Federal Republic of Nigeria’s to contain criminal actions to destabilize national security and the nation’s hard-earned democracy.
Idris held that government would neither be distracted nor intimidated into abandoning the ongoing reforms aimed at rejuvenating the economy and creating a pathway of prosperity for the citizenry.
The minister urged the public to exercise discernment and refrain from spreading or amplifying the unfounded report, which was being strategically planted on some pliant and compromised news platforms to subvert the nation’s democracy.