{"id":4261,"date":"2019-02-10T15:45:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T15:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2019-02-10T15:45:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T15:45:43","slug":"federal-government-speaks-on-death-of-leah-sharibu-attacks-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/federal-government-speaks-on-death-of-leah-sharibu-attacks-pdp","title":{"rendered":"Federal Government speaks on \u2018death\u2019 of Leah Sharibu, attacks PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian government has reacted to report making the rounds on social media that Leah Sharibu, one of the abducted Dapchi school girls was dead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-13\"><\/div>\n<p>Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at a press conference on Sunday in Ilorin, Kwara State, described the report as \u2018absolute fake news\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He blamed the news as a ploy by the opposition party to dent the image of APC just few days to presidential election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-14\"><\/div>\n<p>He said: \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely fake news. There is nothing like that<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rumour of Miss Sharibu\u2019s death, which surfaced just a few days to the presidential election, is another ploy by the political opposition to tarnish the image of the administration and exploit primordial sentiments ahead of the polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s part of the opposition\u2019s strategies to throw everything at the administration and at the President. I think everyday they are realising the hopelessness of their position.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-15\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cEveryday, they are amazed by the support Mr. President is receiving from every part of the country and they have decided that they are going to spread falsehood, inflame passion and make this election a Muslim-Christian affair or North-South affair, but people are not listening to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-20\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian government has reacted to report making the rounds on social media that Leah Sharibu, one of the abducted Dapchi school girls was dead. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at a press conference on Sunday in Ilorin, Kwara State, described the report as \u2018absolute fake news\u2019 He blamed the news as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14],"tags":[207,204,50,173,65,226],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-christianity","tag-government","tag-lai-mohammed","tag-parties","tag-pdp","tag-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Federal Government speaks on \u2018death\u2019 of Leah Sharibu, attacks PDP - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/federal-government-speaks-on-death-of-leah-sharibu-attacks-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Federal Government speaks on \u2018death\u2019 of Leah Sharibu, attacks PDP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigerian government has reacted to report making the rounds on social media that Leah Sharibu, one of the abducted Dapchi school girls was dead. 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