Buhari’s aide, Lauretta Onochie, exposed for posting fake news, photo about Atiku

A media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari , Ms Lauretta Onochie , has been exposed for posting a fake photograph , allegedly of the Peoples Democratic Party’ s Sokoto rally , which held on Monday .Also , one Facebook user named Zara Gift Onyinye , posted the same picture and tagged it “ This is how it happened in Sokoto today . Shameless , to say the least . ”

The Facebook post has since garnered over 1 , 939 shares and 152 comments as of the time of filing this report .

The exposure was made possible by the collaborative verification of journalists under the aegis of Cross Check Nigeria initiative .

It was also reviewed by AFP , The PUNCH , The Guardian , The Niche and the International Centre for Investigative Reporting.

Onochie had claimed that the PDP presidential candidate , Atiku Abubakar , had distributed cash and food at his Sokoto rally held on Monday .

Using her verified Twitter handle , @ Laurestar , Onochie had tweeted an image supposedly from the Sokoto campaign rally .

See the tweet:

⛔He loots billions
⛔Buys the PDP candidacy in Billions.
⛔Spends millions of dollars chasing impossible forgiveness from America

⛔Plans to scrap the poverty alleviation programmes of the @MBuhari Administration

⛔So he can continue to insult Nigerians. #NextLevelWithBuhari pic.twitter.com/2dCrbdsv4W

— Lauretta Onochie (@Laurestar) December 4, 2018

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