{"id":9700,"date":"2026-03-01T23:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=9700"},"modified":"2026-03-01T23:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:06:48","slug":"presidency-refutes-poisoning-rumour-against-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2026\/03\/01\/presidency-refutes-poisoning-rumour-against-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency Refutes Poisoning Rumour Against Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tunde Ojudun<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency has dismissed as false a viral video claiming that an Aso Rock Villa kitchen chef attempted to poison President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.  <\/p>\n<p>The fabricated story further alleged that the kitchen staff had been arrested for questioning. In response, the Presidency clarified that no such incident occurred and urged Nigerians to disregard the misinformation.  <\/p>\n<p>According to the official statement:  <\/p>\n<p> \u201cNo Aso Rock kitchen staff arrested. No Aso Rock kitchen staff attempted to poison President Tinubu. Please ignore this fake news being disseminated by this video.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The Presidency emphasized that the rumour is the work of purveyors of fake news and advised the public to remain vigilant against such disinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tunde Ojudun The Presidency has dismissed as false a viral video claiming that an Aso Rock Villa kitchen chef attempted to poison President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The fabricated story further alleged that the kitchen staff had been arrested for questioning. In response, the Presidency clarified that no such incident occurred and urged Nigerians to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9701,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9700\/revisions\/9701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}