Presidency orders withdrawal of ‘fake news’ on NFF

The Presidency has ordered for withdrawal of what it described as “fake news” making the rounds that President Muhammadu Buhari directed the arrest and prosecution of the Nigeria Football Federal (NFF), Amaju Pinnick. Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, on Sunday, stated that “a press release in circulation in the last 24 hours, to the effect that President Buhari has ordered the arrest and prosecution of Pinnick” is fake. According to the Presidential spokesman, it is a fake news because anyone familiar with the President’s unmitigated and unshakable commitment to the due processes of the law will not make such assumptions of the President. The position of the President that allegations of criminal nature should be addressed only by investigation and law enforcement agencies, within the framework of the law has not changed, the presidency stated. “It is not in the nature of President Buhari to say go and arrest that man or woman as formed the practice in the past. “Rather, he allows all allegations of this nature to be addressed using the mechanism of the rule of law even as law enforcement and investigation agencies should not in any way be hampered in performing their duties,” Shehu said. The presidency, however, warned that nobody should drop names to seek to influence the course of those investigations. Mathew Dadiya, Abuja