We’re not spending $800 million on image laundering – FG

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by Akan Ido

The Federal Government has denied reports that it has concluded plans to employ the services an internationally reputable Public Relations firm to whitewash its image.

The FG had been accused of planning to spend a sum of N800 million to launder President Goodluck Jonathan’s image which many believe is taking a beating owing to his government’s perceived slowness in tackling the problem of terrorism in the country.

In a statement released by Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, the FG’s priority is “national security and the ongoing effort to ensure the safe return of the abducted college girls.”

Read the full statement below:

Reports in national and foreign media that the Federal Government is currently in the process of recruiting an international public relations firm to “counter mounting criticism both inside and outside the country” are completely false and baseless.

The suggestion that the Federal Government intends to spend a staggering sum of $800 Million on the phantom public relations effort to ease “increasing pressure over its response to the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls” is also wholly untrue.

Coming as they do, at a particularly difficult and sensitive time for the entire nation, the Federal Government considers the reports of a drive to recruit consultants to launder its image highly insensitive, deplorable, absurd and very malicious.

The Federal Government’s topmost priority for now is not public relations or image laundering but national security and the ongoing effort to ensure the safe return of the abducted college girls.

We therefore condemn the attempt by purveyors of the bogus reports to incite the Nigerian public against the Federal Government through the circulation of falsehoods .

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