Buhari is not missing in Japan, disregard IPOB's claim — Presidency urges Nigerians

Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina 

The Presidency on Monday urged Nigerians to disregard false claims by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, that President Muhammadu Buhari is missing in Japan.

Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Buhari, in a statement said that IPOB has nothing to do with the President since he arrived Yokohama, Japan, safely on Monday.



Buhari had departed Nigeria yesterday for Japan to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) holding in the City of Yokohama, August 28-30, 2019.

But IPOB, in a swift reaction alleged that President Buhari was not in Japan, stressing that photographs of Buhari were photoshopped.




Adesina said: “Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora are urged to disregard concocted stories, backed with spurious visuals, of any protest or harassment of the President and his team. It is the stock-in-trade of hate mongers, who do not realize that the rest of Nigerians have left them far behind.



“President Buhari will make his presence at the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) count for Nigeria, and no scare-mongering or sabre-rattling will detract from the outing.”