The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus
Keyamo (SAN), has reminded the Peoples Democratic Party of how Channels
Television was treated during the administration of late former President, Umar
Yar’Adua.
This was after the PDP faulted the caution issued by the
National Broadcasting Commission to Channels TV for interviewing the spokesman
of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Emma Powerful.
The PDP had said the disposition of the NBC “could be
counter-productive and heighten the already tensed situation in our nation at
this critical time.”
Reacting to the statement from the PDP, Keyamo warned the
main opposition party against an “attempt to deceive Nigerians.”
“I am NOT airing my
personal opinion on NBC’s action here, but let me remind PDP how its govt
treated Channels TV when it merely (and correctly too) reported the ill-health
of President Yar’Adua. See it here and don’t EVER attempt to deceive
Nigerians,” the Minister tweeted with a link from a report by Voice of America.
The report showed that Channels TV was shut down for
broadcasting a story that Yar’Adua, a PDP President, would resign for health
reasons.
“The government is really serious about this report. It has
shut down one of the main private TV/radio stations in Nigeria. It is called
Channels TV. And not only that, the government also descended on the station
with plainclothes security people, who chased out all the staff and sealed up
the station. Information Minister John Odey was very, very angry at the
station, saying the station reported the supposed resignation of President
Umaru Yar’Adua without confirming the story,” a VOA correspondent said.
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