Media aide of Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has reacted to the alleged discord between his principal and Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, on Tuesday stated that the allegations are a bunch of lies.

“There is no truth to the story. It is outright falsehood. This is an invention; somebody sat somewhere and invented a lie. It is outright fabrication.

“I think it is important for those of us in this profession to speak out at this kind of recklessness. It is not journalism at all. This is a journalistic scandal.

“I think that those of us that are journalists should be outraged; there should be an outrage to this kind of behavior.

“We should put people who try to ridicule our profession to the test; we should constrain them to provide evidence; if there is no evidence then they should retract the story.

“This is an offence against the cause and practice of the media profession and I know that journalists who are in this profession will be and should be outraged by this.

“We challenge those publishers to come out with proof, any kind of proof at all that what they published is true failing which they should retract the story.

“One of the things they try to do in this story is to try to bring confusion and acrimony where none exists.’’

Janeth J