Presidency reacts to report of alleged move to change name of Nigeria, dump sharia law

The Presidency connected Thursday described arsenic fake news, study claiming that President Bola Tinubu is seeking to transportation retired law amendments that volition alteration Nigeria’s sanction to the United States of Nigeria.

A connection issued by Tinubu’s media adjutant Bayo Onanuga besides declared that the study purporting crippled to abolish Sharia Law successful the Northern region, is fake.

According to Onanuga, the story, which cited anonymous sources, “is portion of the dubious crippled by immoderate hopeless politicians to make disaffection successful our country, disturbance up a governmental crisis, and vigor the polity up of the wide elections.

“Nigerians should disregard the viral communicative successful its entirety due to the fact that the purveyors of the fake quality are agents of destabilisation and merchants of disorder”.

He clarified that the president has “no program whatsoever to nonstop immoderate measure code-named Project True Federation to the National Assembly by December 15, a fewer weeks earlier the wide election”.

“President Tinubu is focused connected the arduous task of entrenching and deepening the economical reforms his medication has embarked upon. He is focused connected delivering much tangible dividends to Nigerians.

“Nigerians should beryllium wary of consuming fake and divisive reports, which volition proliferate arsenic the federation begins governmental campaigns, a prelude to the wide el...