The Rivers State government has discredited a social media report that Governor Siminalayi Fubara shut down the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), and other oil companies in the state.
In a statement endorsed by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Warisenibo Joe Johnson, the Rivers government said the report isn’t just misleading but a false narrative.
The assertion peruses, “The attention of Rivers State Government has been attracted to a misleading news item circulating on social media on “Gov. Siminalayi Fubara shutting down NNPCL and all oil companies in Rivers State”.
“The report was not only false, but a false narrative from the imagination of the author and enemies of the State. The story was also circulated by an unimportant and unconfirmed medium.
“Governor Siminalayi Fubara is committed to the rule of law and doesn’t depend on eccentric and unrefined ways to deal with matters of governance.
“We thusly urge Rivers people and well-meaning Nigerians to disapprove the spurious and fake report as Governor Fubara at no time contemplated and/or directed such needless order of shutting down the economy for any reason.”
