Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reacted to the rumour about President Muhammadu Buhari being dead and impersonated by a Jubril from Sudan, citing the rumour as one of the instances in which social media is being misused.
Speaking at a youth mentorship session in Ogun on Sunday, Obasanjo described the rumour as “ridiculous”.
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He said: “Somebody came to me, in very high hope, and said, ‘this talk about Buhari not being Buhari…’. I said, ‘do you believe this?’ He said, ‘well, it is in the social media’. I said ‘Buhari died and we will not know that Buhari has died? And they will bring us somebody from Sudan to be Buhari?’
“It’s ridiculous to the extreme. But you have it in social media and you see people believing it. Social media have done good but it can be abused and misused.”
