Nigeria's former minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed has explained how fake news and social media threatened his 40-year old marriage.

VerseNews reports that Lai Mohammed spoke in Lagos at an event to commemorate the 90th birthday anniversary of Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate.

Mohammed explained that one of the pressing challenges he faced in office as minister was the spate of fake news and social media, misinformation and disinformation.

Speaking on how the menace almost ruined his marriage, Mohammed said the consequences of fake news and social media, disinformation and misinformation were far-reaching

“Permit me to share publicly with you today for the first time, how social media threatened the foundation of my forty-year-old marriage,” he said.

“It was sometimes in 2018 when I came to Lagos from Abuja for an official assignment. As usual, I retire to bed about midnight, but about 3 am, my wife gently roused me from my slumber.

“At first, I panicked, fearing that there had been a security breach, but my wife’s mien belied that possibility, for she was calm and composed.

“Solemnly, my wife asked me if I was fully awake as there were some serious issues to discuss.

“I could not fathom what was that urgent or serious to warrant being woken up at this time of the night.

“My mind immediately did a kaleidoscope of my rascalities and escapades in the last few months.”

The former minister said the accusation from his wife was “a bombshell”.

“Daddy, death can come knocking at any moment, please let me also, as your wife, be a signatory to your oversea account in Ali Financial which contains 1.3 billion dollars,” his wife reportedly said.

The former minister said he could not believe that his wife could believe the fake story in circulation crediting huge sums of money in overseas accounts to government functionaries/ministers under former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

“I spent the next two hours or so, sweating to convince my wife that there is no iota of truth in the allegation,” he added.

“I had to fetch a calculator and reproduce the federal appropriation act for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 in the middle of the night and explain to her why it is simply preposterous for me to have 1.3 billion dollars in a foreign account.

“I explained to her that there is no year my capital budget exceeded N5 billion, which then, at about N400 to a dollar, was just 12.5 million dollars.

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“I had to fetch a calculator and reproduce the federal appropriation act for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 in the middle of the night and explain to her why it is simply preposterous for me to have 1.3 billion dollars in a foreign account.

“I explained to her that there is no year my capital budget exceeded N5 billion, which then, at about N400 to a dollar, was just 12.5 million dollars.

Baba dey form innocent. You got more than that from the portfolio you held.

Your misinformations also threatened the 100year old almagamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates

COMRADES are speechless with lie Mohammed

Wonderful!! With wife number what?

Wife Number 1 and only 1
Not everyone is like you

That's really great, but he is permitted by his faith.

omowolewa:
Wonderful!! With wife number what?

Wife Number 1 and only 1
Not everyone is like you