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ALERT: Trending video NOT Sadiya Farouq’s ‘pre-wedding’ party

BY TheCable

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A video being circulated as the pre-wedding party of Sadiya Umar Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, was recorded on September 14 when her family and friends held a party to celebrate her appointment. 

Farouq was commissioned as the head of the new ministry on August 21.

She had tweeted about the event on September 15, according to a fact check by TheCable.

”Yesterday, I attended a walimah organised by my family and friends to congratulate me on my appointment as a honourable minister by President Muhammadu Buhari,” she tweeted.

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There has been a wild rumour of the minister supposedly getting married to Buhari on Friday.

But she is currently in New York where she is promoting a UN campaign against poverty.

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