The Economists disowns publication on Buhari, Presidency says 

The Presidency on Thursday said The Economist, a London-based magazine, has disowned a publication which claims that Nigerians have shown an unprecedented level of patience with President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to a statement issued by Special Adviser to the president on media and publicity, Femi Adesina in Abuja, the publication had been making rounds on the social media and on some websites in the country, and beyond.

The statement quoted from a letter dated January 18, 2018, which it said was written and signed by Jonathan Rosenthal, the  Africa Editor  of the magazine, saying: “It has come to my attention that an article has been circulating on social media and been published on various websites that purports to have been written or published by The Economist.

“The article with the headline ‘The Unprecedented Level of Patience Shown to Buhari’ was not written nor published by The Economist.

“Any claims connecting it to The Economist are false.”

The Presidency, therefore, enjoined Nigerians to be “very watchful and circumspect about the kind of information they are exposed to, and share, especially in this period when purveyors of fake news abound.”