BusinessDay’s Article on appointees ‘misleading’ – Presidency

The Presidency has described as ‘divisive, mischievous and misleading’ a newspaper article, titled, “81 of Buhari’s 100 appointees are Northerners’.

Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, said the article by Business Day was meant to portray the Buhari administration in bad light.

Adesina stated that the article was either an ignorant effort or a mischievous attempt by the publication to mislead the public.

According to him, the publication’s inconsistencies and selective reportage are questionable and divisive with its many misleading statements that should be taken with a pinch of salt.

“ Although the publication claims to be a fact-checking reportage, what it did essentially is roughly putting together a string of misleading statements across two pages of a newspaper.

“To push this biased reportage, which wrongly…