Dele Alake, a former Lagos commissioner of information and strategy, says he has not been appointed as the spokesperson of President Bola Tinubu. <\/p>\n
Hours after the inauguration on Monday, Femi Fani-Kayode, former minister of aviation, announced on his Twitter handle that Alake has been appointed as the presidents spokesperson. <\/p>\n
But speaking on the issue with TheCable, the former director of strategic communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign, said the news of his appointment was fake. <\/p>\n
It was fake news. Im always surprised when news people failed to recognise fake unsigned stories, Alake said. <\/p>\n
Alake was the commissioner for information and strategy in Lagos between 1999 and 2007 when Tinubu was the governor of the state. <\/p>\n
In 2014, he was appointed as the director of media and communication of the Buhari campaign organisation his return to national politics after a brief hiatus from public roles. <\/p>\n
As a journalist, Alake worked with Concord Press publishers as a writer and editor. After a year, he became a columnist in the National Concord and served in that capacity until 1989. <\/p>\n
He was appointed editor of Sunday Concord in the same year and held the position till 1995 before becoming the editor of the National Concord. <\/p>\n
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