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“Obidient is a youth movement not Labour Party supporters” — Nosa Rex
- The actor took to his Instagram page to correct the misconception that Obidients are only out to promote Peter Obi’s party.
- He further addressed a faction of the movement who attack and curse others from the same group.
Popular Nollywood actor, Nosa Rex, gives clarity on the term ‘Obidient’ which he termed a youth movement other than just Labour Party supporters.
The actor took to his Instagram page to correct the misconception that Obidients are only out to promote Peter Obi’s party.
Nosa Rex affirmed that as an Obidient, their mission is to say no and fight towards the right political cause backed by the support of youths.
He further addressed a faction of the movement who attack and curse others from the same group. The actor insisted those who stir violence amongst the group are unworthy to call themselves a member.
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Misinformation spreads by his media team
AS Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu clocks one year in office, one of the major turn-offs of his administration is the repeated spread of misinformation by his media team led by Ajuri Ngelale.
Being the official mouthpiece of the Nigerian president, the media team is charged with the responsibility of disseminating vital information regarding the government’s policies, directives and other developments through press releases and media appearances.
Since Tinubu became the president on May 29, 2023, his media team has made various misleading claims, thus sparking public outrage and undermining the administration’s credibility.
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In this analysis, we take a look at some of the misleading claims made by the president’s media aides in the last one year.
Misleading Press Releases
Shortly after Tinubu was inaugurated as Nigerian president, he appointed Ajuri as Special Adviser on media and publicity. Before he joined Tinubu’s government, he was a senior special assistant on public affairs to the former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari and he has a history of sharing misinformation.
One of his major responsibilities is managing press releases for the president. Press releases are a major source of information for newsrooms and citizens generally and as such, they are expected to go through rigorous examination and verification to ensure that their contents are factual and not misleading.
In early September 2023 after Tinubu met with the leaders of the UAE, Ngelale issued a press statement claiming that the UAE authorities approved the immediate lifting of the visa ban on Nigerians and the immediate resumption of Emirates and Etihad flights to Nigeria.
A visa ban was placed on Nigeria in October 2022, as the UAE banned nationals of about 20 African countries including Nigeria from entering its borders.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan,” finalized a historic agreement on Monday in Abu Dhabi. The agreement has resulted in the immediate cessation of the visa ban placed on Nigerian travellers. As negotiated between the two Heads of State, this immediate restoration of flight activity, through these two airlines and between the two countries, does not involve any immediate payment by the Nigerian government’’, Ajuri said.
Many Nigerians were excited upon hearing the news having come directly from the Presidency. Many news platforms also reported it but it would later turn out to be false. The UAE government itself debunked the claim before the presidency also came out for clarification.
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Nine days after the misinformation regarding UAE, President Tinubu rang the closing bell of the National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System (NASDAQ) in the US.
After Tinubu rang the closing bell, Ngelale issued a press release on September 21, 2023 claiming that Tinubu was the first African leader to ring the closing bell of NASDAQ. This is not true.
An internet search showed that President Jakaya Kilwete of Tanzania had in September 2011 rung the NASDAQ closing bell – 12 years before Tinubu did it, thus showing lack of due diligence by the president’s official spokesman.
Announcing the appointment of the Director-General (DG) of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ajuri issued a statement claiming that Zubaida Umar is the first woman to be appointed as the agency’s head. This was also false!
Findings showed that the first DG of NEMA, Oluremi Olowu is a woman. Olowu served from 1998 to 2002 after which she voluntarily retired to join politics.
Onanuga’s misleading video on Peter Obi
On February 29, 2024, Bayo Onanuga who is the president’s Special Adviser on information and strategy posted a video on X with a claim that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in Nigeria’s 2023 general election, Peter Obi, was “making a case” for online fraudsters.
“Peter Obi makes case for Yahoo Yahoo boys. Incredible he could use one wrong to justify another. What a leader!” he posted.
In the 43-second clip, Obi is heard saying that the authorities were “chasing young boys with computers and say they are doing yahoo-yahoo when people are stealing billions, which we have as a government”.
But Onanuga’s claim is misleading because the video he shared had been cut in the middle to portray Obi as an advocate of online fraud.
In the full video published on YouTube by Channels Television on February 26, 2024, Obi was commenting on the government’s clampdown on bureau de change operators (BDCs), calling the move ill-advised.
“Today, we spend more time chasing young boys with computers saying they are doing Yahoo Yahoo when people are stealing the billions, which we have as a government,” Obi added.
He also clarified that he was not excusing any crime adding that the priority should be on public officials looting public funds.
“I am not encouraging anybody to steal, but we’ll deal with those stealing our common resources first,” he noted.
Nurudeen Akewushola is a fact-checker with FactCheckHub. He has authored several fact checks which have contributed to the fight against information disorder. You can reach him via [email protected] and @NurudeenAkewus1 via Twitter.
EFCC Disowns List Of Governors Under Probe
By Ayodele Oni
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has disowned a report in the media alleging the release of a list of 58 ex-governors, under investigation for corruption, to the tune of N2.18 trillion.
In a press statement on Sunday, the EFCC explained that it has not issued any such list nor discussed the investigation of the former governors with any media outlet.
A statement signed by EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, noted that the report titled ‘EFCC Releases Full List of 58 Ex-Governors that Embezzled N2.187 Trillion,’ was “a phantom report,” deemed “false and mischievous.”
“The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, feels obliged to dissociate itself from a phantom report circulating in sections of the media, claiming it has released a full list of ex-governors being investigated for alleged corruption.
“The report headlined ‘EFCC Releases Full List of 58 Ex- Governors that Embezzled N2.187 Trillion,’ in one of the news outlets, is false and mischievous as the commission neither issued the said list nor entertained discussions on the investigation of ex-governors with any news medium.
“This invariably means that the so-called list is a disingenuous fabrication designed to achieve motives known only to the authors.”
Oyewale urged the public to disregard the report and advised the media to verify information regarding ongoing investigations directly with the commission, to prevent the spread of false and inaccurate information.
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“People Are Coming In Droves Into Imo PDP Because The Person Blocking Them Has Left” – Anyanwu (Sam Daddy) On Ihedioha’s Resignation
By Charles Igbo
The National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Samuel Anyanwu, has broken his silence on the resignation of the former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, from the Party.
Ihedioha, a political “foe” of Anyanwu, resigned from the PDP last week. Until his resignation, the Independent National Electoral Commission’s – declared-winner of the 2019 Imo Governorship Election, removed by the Supreme Court after seven months in office, was the engine room and face of the Party in the State. He was, without doubt, the foremost Leader of the PDP in Imo State.
It is no wonder, then, that his resignation triggered an unprecedented run in the Party. It caused the resignation of hundreds of Party members from the Party, including high profile members, on a scale never witnessed anywhere before in the history of political party decampments in Nigeria.
Not a few people are of the impression that Ihedioha’s resignation has marked the collapse of the PDP in the State. Ihedioha himself, in an interview on Arise Television, sees the mass resignations after he quit the Party, as a mark of the confidence in his leadership.
But Anyanwu differs. In his first known reaction to the resignations of members from the PDP in his State, and even in his Local Government Area, he said contrary to the belief that Ihedioha’s resignation triggered mass resignations from the party, it has opened the flood gate for new members. He claimed that since Ihedioha’s resignation “People are coming into the Party in droves now, probably because they believe that the person that has been blocking them has left.” In other words, Anyanwu, who spoke during a recent visit to a former Governor of old Anambra State, and now a Board of Trustees member, Chief Jim Nwobodo, means that Ihedioha was a stumbling block that prevented people from being PDP members.
Anyanwu, also, spoke on the number of efforts made to remove him from office as the National Secretary of the PDP just because he aspired to, and emerged as the Governorship candidate of the Party after Ihedioha’s withdrawal from the race.
Anyanwu: “ I am still the National Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party. The Constitution of our party is very clear and explicit on my position. I was elected through the convention and every Zone and State has their own position as inscribed in our constitution.”
He dismissed the crisis rocking the PDP as nothing exclusive to it as other Political Parties have their own shares of squabbles.
“On the crisis in our party, no Political Party is immune from it. The ruling APC, Labour party, and even the NNPP all have their own share of the trouble. As far as I’m concerned, PDP is the only party that has the mechanism of solving internal disputes and that we’ve put into action and I can assure you that we will come out stronger. People didn’t expect that we will come out of the last National Executive Council meeting unscathed and a lot of prophets of doom were disappointed as the NEC meeting went on very peacefully”, he said.
He, also dismissed Ihedioha’s resignation from the Party as not unprecedented, citing former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s resignation from the Party as an example, as well as that of the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.
He said: “Party is a vehicle and it’s a matter of choice. PDP is an organic organization. The former President of this country, Olusegun Obasanjo, tore his card as a member of the PDP on national television. The party never died; our last presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in 2015, left the party with seven Governors and PDP never died, and he later came back to the party. If you think you are not comfortable where you are and decide to go to another place, if you don’t find peace there, you’ll come back.
“As far as Imo state is concerned, the Party shouldn’t revolve around someone. Party is an organization where everybody has right to come in and leave as he/she wants. So, it has nothing to do with the crisis. People are coming into the party in droves now, probably because they believe that the person that has been blocking them has left. If he (Ihedioha) has chosen to go to another political party to pursue his ambition, the party will wish him well, that’s how PDP operates.
“On 2027 election, we’re searching for a credible candidate. I agree with you that we made mistake in the last election but that’s behind us but it’s not within my power to speak on what the party will do about zoning in the coming election.”
