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\"\"The Nigeria Police have declared Kassim Afegbua, the media spokesperson of former President Ibrahim Babangida, wanted.<\/p>\n

The police spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, said Inspector-General Ibrahim Idris ordered the arrest of Mr. Afegbua \u201cfor making false statements, injurious falsehood, defamation of character and for an act capable of inciting public disturbance throughout the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is therefore declared wanted by the NPF and should report at the nearest police station,\u201d Mr. Moshood, a chief superintendent of police, said Monday night.<\/p>\n

Mr. Afegbua, on behalf of Mr. Babangida, released a statement on Sunday critical of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.<\/p>\n

Although another statement reportedly emerged from Mr. Babangida that contradicted the one signed by Mr. Afegbua, the former military ruler himself had taken ownership of the version released by his spokesperson.<\/p>\n

Mr. Babangida told THISDAY Sunday night that the statement which Mr. Afegbua signed on his behalf still stands.<\/p>\n

Reports that the police were moving to declare Mr. Afegbua wanted first emerged Sunday night from sources within the presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nigeria Police have declared Kassim Afegbua, the media spokesperson of former President Ibrahim Babangida, wanted. The police spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, said Inspector-General Ibrahim Idris ordered the arrest of Mr. Afegbua \u201cfor making false statements, injurious falsehood, defamation of character and for an act capable of inciting public disturbance throughout the country.\u201d \u201cHe is therefore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[298],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nIBB's spokesman declared wanted by police over PMB statement<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"IBB's spokesman declared wanted by police over PMB statement\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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