JUST IN: Aide Denies Online Media Report On Atiku’s Visit To US
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice President and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has not travelled to the United States of America (USA), his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Paul Ibe, has said.
Ibe told our correspondent via a telephone chat Thursday afternoon that online reports which stated that Atiku had travelled to the US were a figment of the imagination of the authors.
“You know what the social media can do. You know the social media for what they are now. It is not true. His Excellency hasn’t gone anywhere,” he said.
The clarification came following an online tweet from the Publisher of Ovation magazine, Mr. Dele Momodu, who shared the web link of the online report.
It would be recalled that some online media(NotNEWSRANGERS) have reported that the former vice-president would be in United States on Thursday and he scheduled to speak at the Chamber of Commerce on Friday, from 2:30pm to 4pm local time.
The reported stated that the private roundtable is to be hosted by the US Chamber of Commerce and the US Africa Business Centre is reportedly going to hold at 1615 H street, NW 20062.
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