Following reports that the Minister of Tourism Lola Ade-John was recently poisoned, an assistant director, Press, Federal Ministry of Tourism, Emem Offiong, has dismissed the reports. 

Offiong, described the news as false, and  urged Nigerians not to lend credence to such rumours.

“The news is fake. It is not true that the minister was poisoned,” she stated.

Recall that Peoples Gazette had claimed that the minister of tourism, Lola Ade-John, had been reportedly hospitalised in the nation’s capital, Abuja, over alleged poisoning and was undergoing treatment at the Federal Medical Centre in Jabi, Abuja.