The Director-General of World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said she would take legal action against politicians who use her name for propaganda.
Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said this in reaction to a blog post that claimed she criticized Governor Alex Otti of Abia State.
The fake report claimed that Mrs Okonjo-Iweala accused Governor Otti of deceiving the citizens of the state through propaganda. It added that she was disappointed with the leadership pattern of the Governor.
The report also claimed Mrs. Iweala criticized Governor Otti for allegedly devoting time to criticizing the previous administration.
Reacting to the report, Mrs. Iweala explained that the report was a misrepresentative of the paper she delivered at the last Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Annual General Conference in Lagos.
On her X handle, on Sunday, she wrote, “I have taken screenshots of a fake article purported to be written by me about Abia State and its Gov HE Alex Otti that tries to fraudulently build on my recent speech on a Social Contract for Nigeria. Political hacks beware of using me for propaganda. I shall take action!”
Some part of the report read: “This government started off with a sort of State-sponsored, well-oiled propaganda machinery which was aimed at making sure that the inactions of the present government in some areas were blamed on the former government which they had just wrestled power from.
“Some of us are convinced beyond doubt that it was outrightly unnecessary as the task at hand was mainly about fixing the State and not to bore us with narratives of how the former government ran the State aground with their recklessness.
“Dr. Alex Otti and his team members must realize that they were not elected to give us excuses or tell us tales about the past government, they were recruited to solve the problems created by the previous governments.
“My suspicion of the Labour Party government in Abia State being more interested in distracting the masses than doing the real job of governance was confirmed when the newly elected government started casting everything done in the previous government in dark shades, making us have the notion that everything done by the previous government was bad and as such had to be scrapped.”
