The Presidency has noted with dismay, the utterly false and misleading claim in the lead report in today’s edition of the Daily Trust newspaper that the Federal Government has purchased 200 new “exotic” cars for the African First Ladies Summit which formally opens in Abuja tomorrow.

The true facts of the matter are as follows:

The African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM) which is holding its summit in Abuja is a Non-Governmental Organisation. Its activities are funded by stakeholders and members of the private sector who support and identify with its objectives.

In accordance with its modus operandi, the AFLPM set up several committees, including a finance committee to raise funds and sponsorship for the organization of its Abuja Summit.

As part of its own contributions to the successful hosting of the summit by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, Coscharis Motors Ltd. offered to provide some cars for the event at no cost to the organizers or the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Under an agreement signed by the committee and Coscharis Motors, all the cars will be returned to the company after the summit.

As indicated in the body of the report, the editors of Daily Trust were apparently well aware that they had no facts to support the claim in their banner headline that the Federal Government bought the cars in question.

Daily Trust admits in the report that it could not confirm if the cars were “bought outright or hired” yet it went ahead to publish the totally unsubstantiated headline claim – “FG BUYS 200 CARS FOR FIRST LADIES SUMMIT”.

It is highly regrettable that the Editors of the Daily Trust rushed to publish a completely erroneous report, the falsity of which should have been apparent to them.

Their very unprofessional and unethical decision to publish the unverifiable allegation can only be construed as another attempt to incite public anger against the Presidency and the Federal Government.

Reuben Abati
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
July 25, 2012.

doctokwus: Bullshit!When did Coscharis turn to a charity company dat gives out cars for hire for free,assuming its evn for hire as we are made 2bliv.Where were d funds for d summit raised frm,if not frm d FG whc in nigeria has turned to a bazaar willing to dole out money blonging to d commonwealth wt nobody feeling nor wanting to b accountable to d taxpayer?Bullshit X2

doctokwus: Bullshit!When did Coscharis turn to a charity company dat gives out cars for hire for free,assuming its evn for hire as we are made 2bliv.Where were d funds for d summit raised frm,if not frm d FG whc in nigeria has turned to a bazaar willing to dole out money blonging to d commonwealth wt nobody feeling nor wanting to b accountable to d taxpayer?Bullshit X2

karl max: so if companies like coscharis,glo and multinational companies sponsor shows,seminars and basket mouth comedy show and miss nigeria pergeant that they would not benefit much from Ʊ don't call them charity organisation! If Ʊ own a business Ʊ would knw what they call PR if Ʊ don't ask ur CEO coscharis is a business man.

karl max: so if companies like coscharis,glo and multinational companies sponsor shows,seminars and basket mouth comedy show and miss nigeria pergeant that they would not benefit much from Ʊ don't call them charity organisation! If Ʊ own a business Ʊ would knw what they call PR if Ʊ don't ask ur CEO coscharis is a business man.

mutiply: @wesley
u ar a big fool who will die wretcted,for all d lies u potray to d pple of God,ur generations will live to suffer all wht and d 39 laptop agents ar doin.oloshi

wesley80:

Stop yapping like a popular slowpoke I know on this forum over something you obviously don't know jack about. If you've got evidence that the govt purchased or hired those vehicles, present it or simply STFU. The freedom of Information Bill was passed so daft critics like you and your ilk can get yourselves informed yet you all still prefer to wallow in perpetual ignorance while denying others ample space for reasonable discussions and sensible debates. SMH

karl max: so if companies like coscharis,glo and multinational companies sponsor shows,seminars and basket mouth comedy show and miss nigeria pergeant that they would not benefit much from Ʊ don't call them charity organisation! If Ʊ own a business Ʊ would knw what they call PR if Ʊ don't ask ur CEO coscharis is a business man.

doctokwus: Bullshit!When did Coscharis turn to a charity company dat gives out cars for hire for free,assuming its evn for hire as we are made 2bliv.Where were d funds for d summit raised frm,if not frm d FG whc in nigeria has turned to a bazaar willing to dole out money blonging to d commonwealth wt nobody feeling nor wanting to b accountable to d taxpayer?Bullshit X2

cyril83: being a business man now warrant him to dash out 200 exotic cars to federal govt...mr man this is not happening anywhere

pro01: Let's see what the nitwits have to say. By 'nitwits', I mean the garrulous brutes that derive o.r.g.a.s.m.ic satisfaction from blindly castigating and abusing anything related to the President or First Lady. There must be at least 10 of them on NL, each with not less 200 different user-names.

cyril83: I belive you are one of the people that will be wiped out from the surface of nigeria before 2015 so u had better wine and dine very well with the president and his wife...

mutiply: am nt callin u a laptop agent o,bt hw did u get hold of dis letter directly frm abati?hmmm

ujchief: I dont really blame Daily trust. It was obvious they tried to source for details b4 publishing the news. The original article specified that they contacted Coscharis, who affirmed that a deal was on btw them and the federal govt but was reluctant to give the details. Why wil Coscharis hide the details from the press? Daily trust stil went ahead to contact some govt officials who either was unavailable, or reluctant to divulge info.
I stil believe something is missing here.

binger: Media,media,media?? Nawa 4 daily trust.and to think i cursed the presidency ystday because of a fake news.m sorry oh.i guess we hav to read 4rm 3 diff. Sources b4 commenting

Okija_juju: And the monkeys who abused Jonathan Yesterday nko?!!




You may want to shut up now before its too late..

Coscharis has always sponsored events in Nigeria.. Example are the CHOGM and COJA events.. They lease these cars out, return them to their show room and wave off 10% from the cost..

Okija_juju:

You also should shut the fhuck up!! Especially as you have nothing reasonable to say!!