The Presidency has denied a widely circulating report that President Bola Tinubu has replaced his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila with his Principal Private Secretary, Hakeem Muri-Okunola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It described the report as false, urging Nigerians to disregard such claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A statement by Tinubu\u2019s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, said Gbajabiamila and Okunola still retainsl their positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The statement read: \u201cThe attention of the Presidency has been drawn to a viral falsehood circulating on social media suggesting that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has replaced his Chief of Staff, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, with his Principal Private Secretary, Hakeem Muri-Okunola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is absolutely no truth to this story. We advise Nigerians to disregard it entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Chief of Staff remains in his position. The Principal Private Secretary likewise remains in his role. Hakeem Muri-Okunola has not replaced Femi Gbajabiamila as Chief of Staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe viral claim is a fabrication by mischievous purveyors of fake news whose sole aim is to create disharmony within the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe reiterate that news media should always verify their information before publishing or sharing on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Presidency has denied a widely circulating report that President Bola Tinubu has replaced his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila with his Principal Private Secretary, Hakeem Muri-Okunola. It described the report as false, urging Nigerians to disregard such claims. A statement by Tinubu\u2019s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, said Gbajabiamila and Okunola still retainsl their positions. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,1138],"tags":[3038,663,3037,3039],"class_list":["post-25677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-naija-news","category-politics","tag-bayo-onanuga","tag-bola-tinubu","tag-femi-gbajabiamila","tag-hakeem-muri-okunola"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-79.png?fit=844%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25679,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25677\/revisions\/25679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}