Abducted Dapchi schoolgirl Leah Sharibu is not dead.<\/p>\n
Information, Culture and Tourism Minister Lai Mohammed described as \u2018absolute fake news\u2019 reports that the girl was dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely fake news. There is nothing like that,\u201d the minister yesterday told reporters at a news conference in Ilorin, Kwara State.<\/p>\n
He described the rumour of Leah\u2019s death, which surfaced just a few days to the presidential election, as another ploy by the opposition to bring down the President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration and to exploit primordial sentiments ahead of the polls.<\/p>\n
The minister spoke on a day the Leah Sharibu family renewed its appeal to the Federal Government and the international community not to give up on the abducted schoolgirl.<\/p>\n
Mohammed said: \u201cI think it\u2019s part of the opposition\u2019s strategies to throw everything at the administration and at the President. I think every day they are realising the hopelessness of their position.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery day 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
On today\u2019s presidential campaign rally in Ilorin, Mohammed said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has put everything in place to make the President\u2019s visit a huge success.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe party has been meeting in the last couple of days to ensure that the President\u2019s visit is very successful. We have watched the rallies in many parts of the country and we want to assure Mr. President that our rally in terms of numbers, quality of people, entertainment and colour will rank among the best,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n
He said the crowd that will come out to receive the President will be organic as the party will not engage in crowd renting.<\/p>\n
The minister appealed to security agencies to create a level playing field for all the contestants in the election to allow the people to freely exercise their franchise, saying that those involved in legitimate activities have nothing to fear.<\/p>\n
He also described the protest in some circles over the redeployment of police commissioners across the country as the handiwork of the opposition, which according to him, has been working to discredit the police and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n
At a press conference in Abuja yesterday, the mother of the 15 year-old girl, Rebecca, pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari, the United States (U.S.) and United Kingdom (UK) to do everything in their powers to rescue her.<\/p>\n
Abducted Dapchi schoolgirl Leah Sharibu is not dead. Information, Culture and Tourism Minister Lai Mohammed described as \u2018absolute fake news\u2019 reports that the girl was dead. \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely fake news. There is nothing like that,\u201d the minister yesterday told reporters at a news conference in Ilorin, Kwara State. He described the rumour of Leah\u2019s death, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,28],"tags":[246,136],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-community","tag-death"],"yoast_head":"\n