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The presidency has berated social commentator and activist, Mahdi Shehu, over an attempt to cause anarchy in Northern Nigeria.
Naija News reports that Shehu had made several allegations against the federal government about establishing a French military base in Nigeria’s northeast.
He also shared a series of videos claiming to show Nigerian and French troops offloading supplies in a coordinated operation.
However, in a post via X on Friday, the Special Adviser to the President on Social Media, Olusegun Dada, stated that Mahdi Shehu is hell-bent on burning Northern Nigeria with the use of old videos to pass off his allegation.
Dada warned Nigerians to beware of fake news merchants like Shehu.
He wrote, “This man @shehu_mahdi who is hell bent on burning down Northern Nigeria, is trying to pass off a video recorded on the 19th January 2013 at Bamako Airport during air travel and deployment of Nigerian Soldiers for ECOWAS Peace Keeping Mission in Northern Mali as a recent video of French soldiers being deployed in Nigeria. Beware of fake news merchants like @shehu_mahdi. This video, originally from a 2013 peacekeeping operation, is being falsely circulated as if it occurred in 2024.”
Meanwhile, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, on Thursday, denied allegations that Nigeria is collaborating with France to destabilize the Niger Republic through terrorism.
