IMSU Change of Name: Imo Govt Debunks Rumour of Immortalizing Late Abba Kyari

ThankGod Emeh, Owerri

Senator Hope Uzodinma, All Progressive Congress, APC led government of Imo state has debunked news making rounds online that the Governor is set to immortalize President Buhari’s late Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari by changing Imo State University, IMSU to Mallam Abba and kyari University.

The Chief Press Secretary and Media Adviser to Imo Governor, Oguwike Nwachukwu in a press release issued on Monday, April 20 2020 clarified the public on the issue while decrying the unpatriotic act of the opposition, PDP,
Fake News and Gutter Politics on Abba Kyari.

According to the release, “The attention of the Office of the Chief Press Secretary/Media Adviser to the Governor has been drawn to a fake news circulating on the social media, purporting that Governor Hope Uzodimma wants to rename Imo State University, Owerri, after the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari”

“The author(s) of the fake news had not only credited to the governor what he could not have said, but they criminally wrote the name of his Chief Press Secretary/Media Adviser, Mr. Oguwike Nwachuku as the one who signed the purported statement”, the release added.

The government expressed dissatisfaction of how Imolites easily believed and shared the fake news without verification, and disclosed that the People’s Democratic Party, PDP are the originators of the fake stories in a bid to cast Senator Hope Uzodinma led government in bad light in all they can lay their hands on.

“Since last weekend that
Kyari passed on, the same persons have been issuing press statements, forging
the logo of government and the name of Mr. Nwachuku with the intent to deceive Imolites in particular and the public in general into believing their propaganda and fake news to be real”

“Ordinarily, the blackmail by the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) through the two fake statements they credited to the Chief Press Secretary/Media Adviser to the Governor should have been ignored, knowing that no right thinking person will believe them”

The statement added that in one of such fake statements the opposition issued and also circulated on social media, they mischievously credited Governor Uzodimma to have said he would immortalise Kyari for “making
him Governor.”

“How would any person believe the complete trash that Governor Uzodimma will in a condolence letter say that the late Chief of Staff to the President made him governor of Imo State?”

“Such a senseless and irresponsible blackmail! Not done, the PDP went further to credit yet another fallacy to the CPS/Media Adviser that Governor Uzodimma will rename Imo State University after the late Kyari”

“It was their desperation
to deepen the propaganda and criminal intents that drove them to the latest
fake news of purported renaming of Imo State University after Kyari, something
that only exists in the imagination of their tiny brain’s imagination”

In the foregoing, the CPS, Oguwike Nwachukwu sressed that the Press releases bearing the renaming of Imo State University by Governor Hope Uzodinma was not from him as the Governor has no such plans to immortalize the late Chief of Staff to President Buhari hence his swift release to counter the fake news.

“These heartless and infantile fabrications by
the PDP do not ordinarily deserve the dignity of a refutal by the
respected Office of the CPS/Media Adviser. But the circumstances are not
ordinary because it is about playing politics with the dead. It is sad to admit that the PDP has lost every sense of decency and fallen to the beastly level of denigrating the memory of the dead”

“One is not shocked, therefore, to notice that even in their desperation, the PDP could go so low to commit the sacrilege of dragging the name of a late distinguished statesman into gutter politics.This act of madness is both ridiculous and reckless beyond our imagination”

“We are not surprised at
the level the propagandists of these fake news and their surrogates have
descended, but concerned about how some people will elect to deliberately deceive the public with information they know is outright false and misleading”

“For the avoidance of doubt, let it be known that the two statements in reference were not issued by the office of the CPS/Media Adviser. They were fabricated and issued by the PDP and wickedly credited them to his office. We know exactly the person behind this and appropriate legal steps have been initiated to bring him to book”, he stressed.

“No doubt, we would have
loved to ignore these agents of distraction and fake news, but for the fact that we owe Imo people and the public the right to factual information on the activities of a responsible government like ours. That is why we enjoin the public, including Imolites, to ignore all the fake news being churned out around the death of Kyari by criminally-minded PDP agents and to also bear in mind that their appetite for wrong causes may not be easy to quench in one fell swoop”

“We also advise the reading public to take fake news seriously and make conscious efforts to identify the promoters and ensure that they join others who stand against fake news globally to make their trade unattractive”, Nwachukwu concluded.

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