FG denies dissolution of FEC

Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Jonathan, former president of Nigeria

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President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria
President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria

Senator Patricia Akwashiki, the Minister of Information has denied a report that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) will be dissolved on Wednesday as reported by a national daily.

The Minister who dismissed the report in a statement issued on Tuesday signed by the Press Secretary in the ministry, Joseph Mutah, also ‎denied ever telling the newspaper that the President was going to dissolve the council on Wednesday.

The statement reads: “Information Minister, Sen. Patricia Akwashiki, has refuted news report by Daily Trust Newspaper (Tuesday, May 19, 2015) quoting her to have mentioned that President Goodluck Jonathan will dissolve his cabinet on Wednesday, 20th May, 2015.

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“The Minister said at no time did she speak to journalists on the dissolution of the Federal Executive Council by President Jonathan.

“Sen. Akwashiki is surprised that the news report, which initially quoted an unnamed minister from the South West, ended up attributing the comments to her.

“The Information Minister therefore urges the general public to disregard the tendentious report as false and malicious, which only exists in the warped imagination of its authors.”

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