Presidency Denies Saying Northern Forces Are Working To Destabilise Nigeria

The Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, on Monday denied a report claiming that the Presidency said northern forces were working to destabilise Nigeria under President Bola Tinubu.

It was reported in the media (not TheNewsDesk) that quoted the presidential spokesman as blaming the latest kidnappings in the North on political forces in the northern region plotting to destabilise the country under Tinubu’s watch.

He was alleged to have made the statement during an interview with TVC on Sunday night.

“I will say this: across the North, we understand that some of the sub-regional geopolitical forces that are currently at play are actively conspiring against the stability of the Nigerian nation,” the presidential aide was quoted to have said in the report.

However, in a post on his X handle on Monday, Ngelale said nobody in the Presidency made such a remark or even alluded to the idea.

“Nobody in the Presidency said this or even alluded to the idea,” he wrote