Lai Mohammed Caught Sneaking Out Of Nigeria To Meet Twitter Executives [Video]

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has been caught trying to disguise himself while traveling to the United States to meet top executives of Twitter.

In a video obtained by SaharaReporters, a top source disclosed the destination and the mission of the Minister who was seen trying to disguise with a baseball cap.

The source said Mohammed was in the company of Olusegun Adeyemi, Special Assistant to the President (Media), Office of the Minister of Information and Culture, in a Delta Airline heading to the US.

“You can see Lai Mohammed trying to disguise with a face cap, he flew on seat 8A in the business class section of Delta Airline from Lagos to New York.

“He flew with his Special Assistant, Olusegun Adeyemi who took seat 8C in the business class,” the source said.

Watch the video below:

 

Lai Mohammed Denies Sneaking Out Of Nigeria

Reacting in an interview with NAN in Washington, on Wednesday, Mohammed said that the online media report that he “sneaked out of Nigeria to meet with Twitter executives’’ in the US is fake.

The minister said he came to the US to meet with international media organizations and think-tanks on the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, and efforts made so far in tackling insurgency, banditry, and all forms of criminality.

The minister, who has so far engaged with the BBC, Bloomberg, and Politico during his visit to Washington DC, said he hasn’t met with Twitter.

“Can a minister sneak out of Nigeria without people knowing? When you say I sneaked out of Nigeria, are you saying I went to board at a terminal where nobody is, or I travelled to the Republic of Benin to fly out of the country?” he asked.

“I was at an international airport, where I presented myself openly and I was checked in at the counter like every other traveller of the airline. I boarded and passed through the checks by the immigration service and customs.

“How can you come and say I sneaked out of the country? You and I have been here, have I met with any Twitter official­?

“When you talk about fake news and its dangers, we need to take it seriously, and I am happy that the entire world is now seeing what we saw more than two years ago. I can assure you that we will not rest until we regulate the social media. Otherwise, nobody will survive it.”

KanyiDaily recalls that Lai Mohammed had recently revealed that the Federal Government would lift the ban on Twitter operations “in a matter of days”.