Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has refuted the recent reports making the rounds on how he was forced to resign as PDP Chairman by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
The report had claimed that Obasanjo, in Chief Ogbeh’s house at gunpoint, forced him to resign as PDP Chairman because of criticism of some policies of the former President at the time, a narrative Chief Ogbeh likened to “peddling beer parlour gossip to cause mischief.”
The Minister describing the report “as trash fit for the dustbin” in a statement made available to newsmen, said it was just a social media narrative and a product of the fertile imagination of those who concocted the story.
He said “My attention has been drawn to some publications in the fake news industry alleging that I issued a statement on why I was forced to resign at gunpoint as Chairman PDP.
“This is totally false and a bunch of lies and I feel sorry for these merchants of falsehood who relish in inventing lies which they dish to the public.
“When people write these stories without quoting a source and just pass it off for truth, one feels extremely sorry.
“I will like to advise the generation that enjoys abusing this social media platforms that if they carry on doing what they are doing as the BBC has cause to warn yesterday, they will end up creating tension, conflict and war in our society, which can lead to irreparable damage and loss of lives.”
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