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The presidency has dismissed insinuations that President Muhammadu Buhari is working towards installing an interim government, calling the suggestion a blatant falsehood.

In a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the presidency asserted that the untruths are being orchestrated by those who are afraid that they may lose their elections.

The statement titled: "Stop the joke about interim government, elections will hold, " said while nobody can deny the pressure put on everyone by the current cashless policy, the solution does not like with creating confusion and panic.

It emphasized that elections will hold in about a week's time and Nigerians will vote their choice, urging leaders to work together to solve any existing problems.

The statement read: "Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda Chief of Adolf Hitler said ‘‘Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth’’. This was in the 1930s, before the internet was birthed.

"Let us clearly, specifically and emphatically state that there is absolutely no truth to the claim that President Muhammadu Buhari is working towards an interim government or even worse, the truncation of democracy- democracy that he has helped to keep alive not only here at home, in West Africa but throughout the continent.

"The talk of interim government and truncation of democracy is way off the mark. Those who peddle it stand to gain nothing- nothing at all -but the creation of panic and the