The Presidency on Wednesday said social media influencer Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VDM, should face the law over the circulation of an alleged fake audio purportedly involving President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, stated this in a post on X, accusing VDM of disseminating false content on social media.
“This VDM needs to face the weight of the law for being the conveyor and disseminator of a fake audio of President Tinubu. This is a clear case of an egregious abuse of the social media platform,” Onanuga wrote.
The presidential aide was reacting to a post by an X user, identified as Aneex, who questioned why some people believed the voice in the audio belonged to Tinubu.
The user described the audio as “cheap propaganda” and alleged that VDM was exploiting emotions to spread misinformation.
In another development, the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo, has accused President Bola Tinubu of promoting conflict of interest in government, alleging that the president publicly admitted awarding contracts to business associates.
Adebayo said such conduct would amount to an impeachable offence in more accountable democracies.
Speaking during a televised interview, the SDP standard-bearer criticised what he described as the collapse of transparency and accountability in public procurement under the current administration.
According to him, one of the major problems in Nigeria is that political office holders now double as contractors and business partners of those benefiting from government projects.
“It is not me, it is President Tinubu himself in Lagos, here in front of camera, who said that the businessman I’m giving this contract to is my business partner, and we are going to do a lot of business together,” Adebayo alleged.
“In another country, he would be impeached on the spot.” READ MORE
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