Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says
the media will always be a friend and partner of the current administration
whether it reports nicely or not.
Osinbajo said this at a dinner
organised by the state house communications team for head of media
practitioners in Abuja on Thursday night.
The vice-president urged the
media to tackle the spread of fake news adding that Nigerians were made to
believe a “lie” about President Muhammadu Buhari’s certificate for so long.
“I want to say how very thankful
I am, for all the support we get every day from the press and to say that for
good and for ill at all times, whether you report nicely or not so nicely, you
will always be friends and partners,” he said.
“Because nobody bothered to find
out or didn’t want to find out, the public believed a lie for so long even
after the President had brought his certificate form Cambridge West African
School.
“So, with the anonymity of social
media, every day the problems of a free Press are becoming more and more
complex and even more dangerous.”
He also shared an experience of
how there were false reports that he had resigned, narrating how someone
confronted him over it.
Also speaking, Boss Mustapha,
secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), said the current
administration has laid a solid foundation for Nigeria’s economic development.
“We have run a government that is
accountable to the public by all standards,” he said.
“To our media partners, I want to
stress that in the determination of this administration to place Nigeria on the
path of rapid growth and sustainable development, we will always count on your
role as the watchdog of the society, partners in progress, and the conscience
of the nation.”
Speaking on behalf of heads of
media organisations, Osita Okechukwu, director-general of Voice of Nigeria
(VON), said the event is a pointer that the Buhari administration recognises
the role the media is playing in developing the country.
“We have been appreciated here on
three or four counts but let me mention only two; that the federal government
of Nigeria, under President Muhammadu Buhari had underscored that we were one
of the builders of the democracy in which we are today,” Okechukwu said.
“This is a testimony that
President Muhammadu Buhari’s government recognizes the immense role the Nigerian
media is playing in the development of this country.”
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