The vice-president of Nigeria has released a press statement saying, he never said insurgents were planning to bomb his house at the NEC meeting chaired by him today, but NEC in its press statement made a mistake by typing VP (his own position) instead of VIPs. Read the press statement released shortly after the media followed the error of NEC below.
“A press briefing note circulated today by the secretariat of the National Economic Council, contains a typo on the very last line of the last paragraph.
“That paragraph should read, ‘The Vice President also disclosed that security reports has it that scavengers are now being prepared by insurgents to dump refuse laden with bombs in the houses of VIPs’.
“The last line erroneously reads, ‘In the house of the Vice President’. Please take note of the correction.