Aisha Buhari Spreads Fake News About Naira Notes On Facebook, Instagram

• The federal government’s naira redesign policy has been a hot topic on social and traditional media for several weeks.

• The policy has triggered cash scarcity across the country.

• The first lady was caught in a lie on Tuesday making false claims about the naira redesign policy.

Eko Hot Blog reports that the First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has shared fake news on her social media accounts.

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President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife took to her Instagram and Facebook accounts on Tuesday morning to claim that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had extended the validity of the old N200, N500, and N1000 notes till May 1, 2023.

Recall that the president had ordered the CBN to allow only the old N200 note to remain in circulation till April 10, 2023.

However, the apex bank insisted that the old N500 and N1000 notes have stopped to be legal tender as they were not affected by Buhari’s directive.

On Tuesday, Mrs Aisha shared a statement purportedly belonging to the CBN to her Instagram and Facebook accounts, which claimed that the apex bank had a meeting with the president on Monday, where the bank was directed to extend the validity of all the old naira notes till May 1, 2023.

The CBN quickly disowned the error-ridden statement in a tweet Tuesday morning.

The bank labeled the statement the first lady shared as “fake news.”

Mrs Aisha has publicly disagreed with her husband’s decisions on the naira redesign policy.

Recently, she endorsed claims made by Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State that there were saboteurs in the presidential villa who misled Buhari and engineered the naira scarcity to hurt the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.

The president has often dismissed speculations that he’s working against his party’s candidate, reiterating the former Lagos governor is his preferred successor.

Buhari and Tinubu are campaigning together in Lagos on Tuesday.

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As of the time of filing this report, Mrs Buhari’s posts spreading the fake news remained active.

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