CIVIL Society Organisations, CSOs, Thursday, condemned alleged fake news over rejection of Electoral Act Amendment Bill by President Muhammadu Buhari, allegedly published by one of the national dailies The CSOs described the news headline as a hatchet job, shameless and unfortunate to misinform Nigerians and mislead Mr President as contained in a statement signed by Executive Director, Adopt A Goal for Development Initiative, Ariyo-Dare Atoye; The Convener, Raising New Voices Initiative, Jude Feranmi; and Executive Director, Speak Out Africa Initiative, Kenneth Eze.

The statement reads in part, “Fellow Nigerians, we woke up this morning (Thursday) to the FAKE NEWS HEADLINE by The Sun Newspapers which read ‘Buhari Rejects Electoral Bill’. This hatchet job carried out by some crooked persons to misinform Nigerians and mislead the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is shameless and unfortunate.
“In an era where FAKE NEWS continues to harm our society, cause chaos and hamper democracy, we are shocked that The Editorial Management of The Sun newspapers and some online news outlets would render their reputation and their platform to be used for this shoddy job.

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“We can authoritatively confirm that Mr President has not forwarded any letter rejecting the Electoral Amendment Bill to the National Assembly. The interview granted by one of the APC governors published as news and stating that Mr President has rejected the bill based on the phantom N500 billion costs of logistics for monitoring the direct primaries of political parties is a barefaced LIE.

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