Prof. Farooq Kperogi has taken to his social media account on Facebook to deny reports which claims he’s the source of the news circulating about the amount spent on President Muhammadu Buhari’s ear infection treatment.
The popular analyst and US-based educationist rather pointed an accusing finger at news agency, Vanguard, noting that the news source had earlier reported that the presidency spent a total of six million pounds.
This comes after the presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu had expressed his disappointment as regards a Facebook post shared by Kperogi.
Kperogi, denying responsibility wrote: “I didn’t make up the allegation that Buhari spent 6 million pounds to treat his ear infection. It’s been around since June. It was even reported in the Vanguard of June 9.
“Now, I am the first to admit that Vanguard isn’t always a reliable source of news (I have written at least two scathing articles on Vanguard), but it’s also true that Vanguard is Nigeria’s most visited online news source, outranked occasionally only by Punch, according to Alexa.
“You ignore it at your own risk. The presidency must be aware of this allegation. Why haven’t they denied it and set the records straight? Well, it’s probably because they didn’t or don’t want to lend wings to an embarrassing revelation. If they were never aware of this allegation until I brought it up in my column and status update, then they are more clueless than I thought.”