Imo State Government has denied a news report circulating on the social media, purporting that Governor Hope Uzodimma wants to rename Imo State University, Owerri, after the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari.
In a press release, the Chief Press Secretary/Media Adviser to Governor Hope Uzodimma, Oguwike Nwachuku also debunked another news report where ‘they mischievously credited Governor Uzodimma to have said he would immortalise Kyari for “making
him Governor.”
Nwachuku, while describing the fake news as a senseless and irresponsible blackmail, said the latest fake news of purportedly renaming of Imo State University after Kyari was something
that only exists in the imagination of their tiny brain’s imagination.
Part of the release read “We are not surprised at the level the propagandists of these fake news and their surrogates have descended, but concerned about how some people will elect to deliberately deceive the public with information they know is outright false and misleading.
“For the avoidance of doubt, let it be
known that the two statements in reference were not issued by the office of the CPS/Media Adviser. They were fabricated and issued by the PDP and wickedly credited them to his office. We know exactly the person behind this and appropriate legal steps have been initiated to bring him to book.
“No doubt, we would have loved to ignore these agents of distraction and fake news, but for the fact that we owe Imo people and the public the right to factual information on the activities of a responsible government like ours.
“That is why we enjoin the public, including Imolites, to ignore all the fake news being churned out around the death of Kyari by criminally-minded PDP agents and to also bear in mind that their appetite for wrong causes may not be easy to quench in one fell swoop.”
The release advised the reading public to take fake news seriously and make conscious efforts to identify the promoters and ensure that they join others who stand against fake news globally to make their trade unattractive.