Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has denied reports that he locked down Calabar during his visit on Thursday to attend the Justice P.O.E Bassey Memorial Lecture, at the University of Calabar.
In a statement signed by Laolu Akande, Osinbajo’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, the Vice President explained that the lock down is just another mischievous and baseless report from some of the same social media quarters that misled the nation in the past about his purported exclusion from security meetings.
The statement read “Prof Osinbajo was well received in Calabar witnessed by the warmth shown him and his delegation by the people and government of Cross River State.
“Claims that the town was in a lock down because of his visit is just another mischievous and baseless report from some of the same social media quarters that misled the nation in the past about his purported exclusion from security meetings.
“The Vice President did not even spend ten hours in Calabar and could not have locked down the town, as his convoy moved freely among the people in regular traffic as he normally does.”