Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, alerted Nigerians of the existence of a Twitter account fraudulently purporting to represent the Presidential Transition Council (PTC) on Sunday in Abuja.
The PTC’s chairman is Mustapha.
“The attention of the PTC has been drawn to a fake Twitter handle, @TransitionNgr (https://twitter.com/TransitionNgr) created by unscrupulous persons since April 2020 even before the establishment and inauguration of the council.
“The PTC has nothing to do with the fake Twitter handle. President Muhammadu Buhari gave approval for the establishment of the PTC only in February 2023,’’ he stated.
According to Mustapha, the bogus Twitter account’s existence prior to February 2023 indicated its handlers’ careless and deliberate attempt to spread false and tainted information to gullible members of the public.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the authentic Twitter account of the PTC is: @FGNPTC (FGN PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION COUNCIL) https://twitter.com/FGNPTC/,’’ he stressed.
In order to get true and correct information on the PTC’s activities, Mustapha encouraged the public to disregard the phoney Twitter account and utilise the PTC’s actual account handle instead.
He emphasised that the PTC’s activities were on track because everyone on the committee was putting up great effort to ensure that the May 29 inauguration of a new administration went off without a hitch.
