The Rivers government says those who were defeated in the presidential poll are churning out fake news against Nyesom Wike, governor of the state.
Chris Finebone, Rivers commissioner for information and
communications, in a statement issued on Sunday, said the purveyors of the fake
news are spreading them to deceive Nigerians.
He said a preliminary investigation by the state government
“revealed that the scheme is the handiwork of opposition social media urchins”.
“Their easiest style, so far, is to dig up old fake videos that have been discredited in the past, edit them and circulate same as if they are true and current,” the statement reads.
“Firstly, they
manipulated an old audio clip of 2016 and circulated same in cyberspace as a
current clip involving the governor and another individual just to tarnish the
image of the governor prior to the last Presidential Election.
“Their main objective was to harvest the sympathy of a
certain section of Rivers voters. Secondly, after the shellacking they got at
last Saturday’s presidential election, they angrily placed another fake news in
the internet claiming that the governor’s son in the US had been mortally
harmed – a lie taken from the pit of hell since the governor has no child in
the US.
“With the Presidential election behind us, these individuals
have gone back to contrive more fake news. This time, they took an old video
clip of 26th February, 2019 in which Col. Aminu Iliyasu, the then Deputy
Director, Army Public Relations, 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt in
which the officer raised spurious allegations against Gov. Wike following the
faceoff between the governor and the Army over the governor’s courageous
resistance to the military that were bent on rigging the 2019 governorship
election in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“What these persons
have done is to take that video clip, cut it out of context and circulate same
in the social media to portray the governor as someone who is planning to
compromise the military for the forthcoming governorship election. Their
insidious efforts are shameful, criminal and evil.
“The Rivers State Government is using this medium to, once
again, urge the general public, civil society and the international community
to discountenance the video in question and all such fake news these individuals
and their likes will try to deceive the public with as the governorship
election of March 11, 2023 draws near.”
On March 2, it was falsely reported the only son of the
governor was shot dead in California, United States.
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