FG Denies Ordering 53 Gold Iphones For Anniversary

The Federal Government has denied the report that it ordered 53 gold plated iphones  costing 55,000 pounds each for the 53rd anniversary celebration.

The President’s social media aide, Reno Omokri, tweeted that “Be advised that the story that the Nigerian Government has ordered 53 Gold iPhones is false. There is no truth to the story whatsoever.” The Press Secretary to the Minister of Information, Joseph Mutah, also told PREMIUM TIMES that the government did not make the order. “We have never heard of anything like that. The story is utterly false and mischievous, there is no any order like that at least by this government,” he said.

Gold and Co, the luxury product company that claimed to have received an order from the Nigerian Government for 53 gold-plated Iphones for the country’s 53rd independence anniversary has retracted the claim made by its boss, Amjad Ali.

In a twitter exchange between the company and a Nigerian social activist, Henry Okelue (@4eyedmonk), the London-based company denied its earlier claim that it got the order directly from the government, saying the order came from a private individual.

“These have been ordered not by the government but by an individual who is gifting them to people there to celebrate the [53rd Anniversary],” the company’s twitter handle (@goldandco) tweeted at Mr. Okelue.