Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has denied travelling out of the country as the nation goes to the polls on Saturday.
Obasanjo made the denial on Friday at his Presidential Library, Abeokuta, in reaction to a Facebook post of one Gbenga Lawal.
Gbenga Lawal had written on the social media platform: “Breaking: Obasanjo jets out of Nigeria. He can’t even wait for the thief he is imposing on Nigerians.”
The former president described it as another case of fake news.
“Why should I travel out of the country before the election? If not for anything, I believe I should be here to perform my civic responsibility, which is to vote according to the dictate of my heart tomorrow and on the 2nd of March.
“Those who are carrying that type of rumour or fake news; I leave them in the hands of God; I am used to that kind of thing. In Yoruba land, if your head is hard, you don’t have to worry yourself.
“Let anybody tell lies against you, let anybody issue fake news against you, let anybody abuse you, God will deal with them rightly and appropriately,” he said.
