A news report by Punch Newspaper says The Federal Government has denied the
report that it intends to spend 800 million dollars on the phantom
public relations as this is false and malicious.
A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and
Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, on Tuesday in Abuja, said that Federal
Government’s topmost priority was security and not image laundering.
“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 dollars 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 alicious.”
Abati said government condemned the attempt by purveyors of the
reports to incite the Nigerian public against the Federal Government
through the circulation of falsehoods.
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