{"id":64475,"date":"2025-04-19T10:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T10:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64475"},"modified":"2025-04-19T10:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T10:53:37","slug":"shettima-debunks-ban-rumour-says-no-rift-in-the-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/19\/shettima-debunks-ban-rumour-says-no-rift-in-the-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Shettima Debunks Ban Rumour, Says No Rift in the Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kashim Shettima has firmly refuted viral online claims that he was barred from accessing the Presidential Villa, describing the reports as \u201cmischievous fabrications\u201d designed to sow discord within the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The rebuttal came on Saturday through his spokesperson, Mr Stanley Nkwocha, following a late Friday night report by an obscure online platform alleging that Shettima was denied entry into Aso Rock and confined to his residence pending President Bola Tinubu\u2019s return from an overseas trip.<\/p>\n<p>Nkwocha, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications (Office of the Vice President), said the claim was part of a \u201cdeliberate and well-planned orchestration of falsehood\u201d targeting the Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese mischievous and totally fabricated reports are all in a bid to cause confusion and insinuate a clash at the highest levels of government,\u201d he stated. \u201cNothing of the sort ever happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described the story of armed military units barricading the Vice President from the villa as \u201ca wild expression of wishful thinking\u201d by those unfamiliar with the inner workings of governance, asserting that such falsehoods were the product of desperation.<\/p>\n<p>Nkwocha also linked the development to earlier fake news involving campaign posters bearing both President Tinubu\u2019s and Shettima\u2019s images, calling it part of a broader effort to undermine the unity and loyalty within the nation\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese fairy tales serve no purpose beyond mischief and distraction. The bond between the President and the Vice President remains strong and intact,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He further assured Nigerians that Shettima is focused on delivering on his duties and supporting the President\u2019s vision, adding that neither the Presidency nor its principal officers would be distracted by baseless rumours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Vice President does not have the luxury of time for distractions born out of the imagination of those intent on creating smoke where there is no fire,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency urged citizens and media professionals to verify information from credible sources and avoid amplifying sensational claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Vice President Kashim Shettima has firmly refuted viral online claims that he was barred from accessing the Presidential Villa, describing the reports as \u201cmischievous fabrications\u201d designed to sow discord within the Presidency. The rebuttal came on Saturday through his spokesperson, Mr Stanley Nkwocha, following a late Friday night report by an obscure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64477,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64475\/revisions\/64477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}