In
a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja, the Federal Government has
said that the peddlers of online messages on the health of President
Buhari, will be met with the full wrath of the law.
President Buhari in army regalia
The Federal Government says the full wrath of the law will be
brought to bear on the authors of subversive messages being circulated
on the health of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The government said this in a statement issued on Wednesday in
Abuja by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
“The source/sources of the fabricated messages are already
being investigated and the authors should prepare to face the
consequences of their actions,’’ the minister said.
According to Mohammed, the President is hale and hearty and there
is no iota of truth in the subversive messages being circulated on his
health.
He noted that there was no truth in the messages on the president’s
health and the purported emergency meetings of state governors in Abuja
or anywhere.
The minister urged Nigerians to disregard the messages being
circulated via text messages and the social media, saying the fabricated
messages were being orchestrated by those who felt threatened by the
emerging order.
Mohammed noted that the naysayers had also resorted to the use of
ethnicity and religion as tools to divide Nigerians, over-heat the
polity, and cause panic among the citizenry.
“While opposition and criticism are all part of democracy, the
crafting and circulation of subversive materials and scare-mongering are
not.
“The emerging trend of resorting to destabilisation and
scare-mongering is not unexpected, considering this government’s
clamp-down on the corrupt elements in the society.’’
The minister said the scare mongering was because government had
blocked all financial leaks, enthroned probity and transparency and
derailed the gravy train of the looters of public treasury.
Mohammed said government would neither stifle press freedom nor
abridge the citizens’ right to express themselves freely through
constructive criticism or protests.
He, however, warned that “the security agencies will neither allow any resort to violence nor a willful subversion of the state for whatever reason".
-NAN
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