Politics
Fake News Is The Only Weapon Used Against A Performing Government Like Ours — Lai Mohammed
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says fake news is the only weapon used against a performing government like theirs.
The minister said this on Thursday when he visited People’s Daily newspaper in Abuja.
Mohammed alleged that respectable media organisations make accusations against the president without backing their claims with evidence.
He said the media is free to criticise the president but it does not have the right to denigrate him because he is the symbol of the country.
“Fake news has taken another dimension. Now, it is not uncommon for otherwise respectable media organisations to accuse the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria without backing up their accusation with an iota of evidence,” the minister said.
“The latest of such occurred two days ago, when a newspaper wrote an editorial in which it resorted to the use of uncouth language to link the president to the farmers-herders clashes. In their eagerness to de-market the President, they forget that the President is the symbol of Nigeria, and that by denigrating him, they are denigrating the country.
“Unknown to them, by throwing caution to the wind, they are not only denigrating the country, they are also destroying themselves. The media is free to criticise the president, but it is not right to denigrate the president.
“They are unrelenting, because fake news is the only weapon they have against a performing administration like ours. They know they cannot take on us on the issue of infrastructure, economy, fight against corruption, agricultural development, etc. They have therefore resorted to using fake news to de-market our administration. Thankfully, they are failing.”
Mohammed said the purveyors of fake news are perfecting plans to distort campaigns of 2019 general election.
“The purveyors of fake news in Nigeria have not relented. If anything at all, they are perfecting their strategy of using fake news to distort the campaign for next year’s general elections,” he said.
“No doubt, the main target of the naysayers is the Buhari administration. They have used fake news to aggravate the farmers-herders clashes.
“If we can’t slay the monster of fake news, we must at least tame it. All we are asking all Nigerians to do are check the source of any news item being pushed their way [and] don’t share whatever they cannot vouch for.”
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 10:24 pm
LIKE FAKE LIE MOHAMMED..DECEIVER,CON MAN,&@ YOUR AGE,A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR.
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 8:43 pm
Is the kwankwaso chanting today when shekarua was presented..
Fake news?
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 7:54 pm
Guinness Book of Record’s Greatest Liar of All Time.
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 7:37 pm
Very old to occupy a position in any of government
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 7:01 pm
Old fool’s
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 6:52 pm
As u used it before.
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 6:51 pm
Fake new and propaganda is the only weapon a non performing government like this uses against its citizen.
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 6:14 pm
Fool
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 5:36 pm
Minister of Information, if your government is performing, there would be no fake news. And by the way, your ministry or rather your portfolio, should be Minister of Disinformation, of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Your once vaunted, peacockish, rabble rousing nature and behavior, that heralded you in 2015, has suddenly gone silent. A glaring testimony of an administration of ineptitude.
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 3:48 pm
Failed government of wicked people
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 2:37 pm
Shut up which government? Dictator
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 2:31 pm
Ewu your must be smelling shit
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 12:13 pm
Shut up ur goddam mouth dia, Fool, ur an apostle of Lucifer d grand patron of liars.
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 11:01 am
You also used fake news against Jonathan. How market?
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 10:50 am
Shameless lying old man
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 8:11 am
What is FAKE NEWS here,is it the wide reporting of FULANI killer squad massacring people all over the xounrey that is FAKE NEWS,is it that Buhari is WITCH HUNTING tge oppositions and on the other DINNING with & SWIMMING in corruption waters, is it that one which is FAKE NEWS,is it MAINAGATE that is FAKE NEWS,is it BARUGATE that is FAKE NEWS,is it ADEOSUN NYSCATE that is FAKE NEWS,is it returned ABACHAl lootsGATE that is FAKE NEWS,is it the ORPHAN MONEY found in IKOYI Osborne tower that is FAKE NEWS,is it NHIS boss #919GATE that is FAKE NEWS,is promising us good health care in 2014 but abandoned nigerian health rot and run to london every month for same medical care that is FAKE NEWS,how does the media reporting that the Unemployed son of the first family is riding on 2 power bike which cost above #500 million each is FAKE NEWS,tge list is very long.but I don’t blame you because from the yoi reason and talk,even mr TRUMP too is fighting Angelic APC govt with FAKE NEWS too. mr SHAMELESS/WORTHLESS SENEGALESE JOLLOF, what legacy are leaving behind for your children to copy———LIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS..
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 7:34 am
Ogbeni lier go sleep
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 5:11 am
You did nothing at all but killed all Nigerian with poverty
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 4:12 am
UR A FOOL EWU
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 4:02 am
Just like you did to GEJ
Anonymous
September 7, 2018 at 2:17 am
Who is talking. Lying lying Mohammed
Anonymous
September 6, 2018 at 11:58 pm
Buhari dictatorship terrorist government is a fake news producer this fake Buhari lifeless president of Fulani headsmen terrorist group will be exposed very very very soon
Anonymous
September 6, 2018 at 9:12 pm
Mugu
Anonymous
September 6, 2018 at 9:03 pm
like you told your stupid lame and lifeless stupid supporters that the 2nd Niger bridge is 90% completed
Anonymous
September 6, 2018 at 8:51 pm
You people don comment without an abusive tone, haba!
Anonymous
September 6, 2018 at 8:47 pm
Nonsense talk
Anonymous
September 6, 2018 at 8:21 pm
Anonymous
September 6, 2018 at 8:20 pm
The father of fake news,lying, and propaganda talking. Nigeria is wiser now.
Anonymous
September 6, 2018 at 8:11 pm
which government is peforming
Anonymous
September 6, 2018 at 8:11 pm
which government is peforming
Anonymous
September 6, 2018 at 8:11 pm
which government is peforming