{"id":4664,"date":"2020-04-06T12:52:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2020-04-06T20:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T19:13:51","slug":"abba-kyari-not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/abba-kyari-not-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Abba Kyari: NOT Dead!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A blog, Akelicious.net, published a report claiming the President\u2019s Chief of Staff was dead; further naming their source as \u201cDr Kemi Olunloye\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No credible media platforms have published this news. More so, the presumed source, Ms Kemi Olunloyo, [spelled in the blog as \u201cDr Kemi Olunloye\u201d] had tweeted infamously that a \u201chigh ranking member of the president\u2019s cabinet\u201d was dead. She made no mention of the President\u2019s Chief of Staff.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On March 30, publications<\/a> broke the news that Buhari\u2019s Chief of Staff admitted his coronavirus positive status and was to receive treatment in Lagos. Before this announcement and since then, conspiracy theories have swirled around his whereabouts. A number of online users kept suggesting that he had been transferred abroad for medical treatment<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Presidency, however, said that Abba Kyari was receiving treatment in Lagos.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, now in a string of more conjectural claims have come a blog<\/a>, Akelicious.net, which claims Kyari has passed on. The publication went live on Friday, April 3, further attributing their source to a certain \u201cDr Kemi Olunloye, a trained pharmacist and medical journalist in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The spelling errors and awkward formatting are reminiscent of malicious sites, according to tech giant, Facebook<\/a>. In truth, the blog site misspelt the Doctor\u2019s name and their text formatting is \u201coff\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Firstly, Dubawa sought verification from notable media houses in Nigeria to determine if this was actually true. However, credible platforms such as Channels online, Premium Times, Vanguardngr, Sahara reporters, Punch Newspapers, among others, failed to report this news.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having searched print media as it were, we took to social media. Here we found that Bashir Ahmad, President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s media aide, already dismissed the news as a rumour on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Though I really don\u2019t know who this Lola is, but someone close to her should pls tell her to leave Abba Kyari to recuperate in peace, he\u2019s in Lagos & responding well to treatment. If it\u2019s caring she should also use the same energy to ask the whereabouts of other #COVID19<\/a> patients<\/p>— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) April 3, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>