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Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says fake news is the only weapon used against a performing government like theirs.<\/p>\n

The minister said this on Thursday when he visited People\u2019s Daily newspaper in Abuja.<\/p>\n

Mohammed alleged that respectable media organisations make accusations against the president without backing their claims with evidence.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cFake 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,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnknown 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.<\/p>

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\u201cThey 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mohammed said the purveyors of fake news are perfecting plans to distort campaigns of 2019 general election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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\u2019s general elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo doubt, the main target of the naysayers is the Buhari administration. They have used fake news to aggravate the farmers-herders clashes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can\u2019t 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\u2019t share whatever they cannot vouch for.\u201d<\/p>\n

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