The assistant director, Press, Federal Ministry of Tourism, Emem Offiong, has refuted the story of alleged poisoning of the minister of tourism.
Speaking during an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP in Abuja yesterday, Offiong dismissed the news as false and urged Nigerians not to lend credence to such rumours.
“The news is fake. It is not true that the minister was poisoned,” she stated.
It will be recalled that an online media report had it that the minister of tourism, Lola Ade-John, has been reportedly hospitalised in the nation’s capital, Abuja, over alleged poisoning and was undergoing treatment at the Federal Medical Centre in Jabi, Abuja.
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