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Rumor Mill of Saturday, 13 June 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Twitter user cries out after getting blocked by NCDC for Buhari COVID-19 prank

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A Twitter user has cried out after he was blocked by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for a COVID-19 prank.

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Retd.) was the object of the false alarm by Yemi Daniel, with the Twitter handle @babagboran.

In a DM with the NCDC (screenshots shared by the user), he made a false COVID-19 call to the centre, claiming that his neighbour is showing signs of the deadly virus.

A further inquiry by the NCDC made Yemi share a picture of the suspected victim which turned out to be a photoshopped image of President Buhari.

In response to the waste of time and the false alarm raised, the NCDC in turn blocked him.

He has since been pleading for the NCDC to unblock him "Make una take chill pill nw. The post isn’t actually real_i’m actually sorry if I’ve taken this far. This jail jail bla bla should stop edakun.

"I actually did this to make u guys laugh. I’m sorry edakun But seems you’ve all forgotten to follow me. Follow me I’d FB.

"I think it's high time I take down the tweet una people no dey take chill pill o."