In a swift response to a viral assertion titled ‘Tinubu Speaks’ and credited to President Bola Tinubu, the Presidency has categorically denied authenticity of the doc.
Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, in response to enquires on Saturday, dismissed the viral message attributed to his principal as pretend.
“Based mostly on latest inquiries, I want to reiterate that that is pretend and doesn’t emanate from the Presidency,” Ngelale said firmly.
The fabricated assertion had been broadly shared on social media platforms, presupposed to be a speech from President Tinubu addressing the nation’s financial challenges.
It outlined a sequence of drastic measures, together with a 50% wage minimize for high authorities officers, the scrapping of the Workplace of the First Woman, and the restoration of gas and electrical energy subsidies as some measures to ameliorate the present struggling of the lots.
The pretend message additionally claimed that the President was planning to scale back the variety of his ministers, unload presidential plane, and implement a ban on international medical journeys for presidency officers.