Presidency Alerts Public to Smear Campaign Against Buhari

The Presidency has alerted the public to a smear campaign in the works against Mr President and his office by disgruntled political elements in the country. Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, stated this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. Without any evidence, he said the disgruntled elements had been shopping for pliant online media that would serve as accomplices in their nefarious act. According to him, the game plan is to launch orchestrated campaign of calumny in the days ahead, in which the president will be portrayed as not being in charge of the country. He said already this narrative had started from a procured offshore medium by the instigators. He said: “Money and other attractive inducements are being dangled before the online media, and some of them are already complicit, cooking up stories with jejune (simplistic) and unsubstantiated allegations, all to sow seeds of discord and discontent in the country. “Nigerians are urged to be