Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Paul Ibe, has called on the Presidency to apologize to Nigerians for the misleading appeal video of President Bola Tinubu posted on his X handle on Wednesday.
Paul Ibe said Nigerians thought President Tinubu showed empathy to their course through the video, only to realize they were misled.
Ibe argued that the controversy from the video showed lack of coordination among the President’s inner cabinet. He accused the presidency of spreading fake news to citizens and engaging in misinformation.
On Thursday, Atiku’s aide said, “The video went viral on social media and it was adjudged to have shown more empathy for the concerns of protesting Nigerians, unlike the shambolic speech by the President on Sunday that will forever be remembered in ignominy.
“Curiously, much later in the evening of the same day, presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, made a post on his X handle telling the country that the video clip that was posted on the President’s handle, ‘is not a new video. It’s a clip from a broadcast he made last year’.
“The scenario says a lot about the character of the Tinubu presidency, the proficiency of his media managers, and the attitude that the presidency accords the current #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest.
“For a start, what the Tinubu presidency did with the old video is to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians, with a view to distract them. It’s a mannerism that is symptomatic of this presidency.
“This president and his media managers are a class act in propaganda.
“It is indeed shameless that in a time where misinformation is being blamed for public outrage in many parts of the world, the Nigerian government is caught red-handed in the act, adopting it as a state policy,” Ibe said.
He added that Tinubu’s administration is deficient in credibility. Ibe said inefficiency of Tinubu’s media aides, regarding the Wednesday video, explained the reason for current economic hardship.
“The flip-flopping episode that played out in the management of the President’s social media handle typifies the Tinubu administration’s policy flip-flops and trial-and-error policies. It is for this very reason that the country has been on a tight noose since the beginning of the administration.
“Obviously, the president’s media team knew they did a poor job in the Sunday broadcast by the president and in trying to make amends, came out to do what they know how to do best: deploy propaganda.
“This type of dysfunctional narrative is why Nigerians have lost confidence in the Tinubu administration. It is obvious even to the blind and the deaf that this government is deficient in credibility.
“As a matter of urgency, the Nigerian people deserve an unreserved apology from the Tinubu presidency for leading them into a tailspin of misinformation and the attendant consequence of bad governance,” he added.
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