Nigeria denies recruiting PR firm to counter criticism
(Nigeria) The Nigerian Government on Tuesday, denied that it
had hired an international public relations firm to counter criticism both
inside and outside the country against it.
Mr Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President on Media
and Publicity, in a statement, said “Reports in national and foreign media that
the Federal Government is currently in the process of recruiting an
international public relations firm to “counter mounting criticism both inside
and outside the country” are completely false and baseless.
“The suggestion that the Federal Government intends to spend
a staggering sum of $800 million on the phantom public relations effort to ease
“increasing pressure over its response to the kidnapping of more than 200
schoolgirls” is also wholly untrue.
“Coming as they do, at a particularly difficult and
sensitive time for the entire nation, the Federal Government considers the
reports of a drive to recruit consultants to launder its image highly
insensitive, deplorable, absurd and very malicious.
“The Federal Government’s topmost priority for now is not
public relations or image laundering but national security and the ongoing
effort to ensure the safe return of the abducted college girls.
“We therefore, condemn the attempt by purveyors of the bogus
reports to incite the Nigerian public against the Federal Government through
the circulation of falsehoods.”
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