The Presidency has condemned those spreading rumour that Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, has reportedly died.
Politics Nigeria reports that the rumour of Kyari’s death started on Thursday via a tweet by controversial investigative ‘journalist’ Kemi Olunloyo.
Olunloyo claimed ‘a high ranking member of President Buhari’s Cabinet has DIED from coronavirus complications’.
In a tweet on Friday, Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, said Kyari was responding to treatment and recuperating well in Lagos State.
He also called for an end to the clamor for Kyari’s whereabouts and asked the wife of singer Peter Okoye, Lola Omotayo-Okoye, to stop about Abba Kyari’s whereabouts.
Ahmad wrote: “Though I really don’t know who this Lola is, someone close to her should tell her to leave Abba Kyari to recuperate in peace, he’s in Lagos and responding well to treatment.
“If it’s caring she should also use the same energy to ask the whereabouts of other #COVID19 patients.”
Though I really don’t know who this Lola is, but someone close to her should pls tell her to leave Abba Kyari to recuperate in peace, he’s in Lagos & responding well to treatment. If it’s caring she should also use the same energy to ask the whereabouts of other #COVID19 patients
— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) April 3, 2020
