The Media Team of Ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has chided media handlers of President Bola Tinubu, over attempts to hoodwink Nigerians into believing that the president was compassionate.
It described the use of an old video of President Tinubu
appealing to Nigerians; to cover up for his poor outing during his last
national broadcast on the #Endbadgovernance protests as evidence of this
duplicity.
Atiku’s Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, in a statement, in Abuja,
yesterday said, “In the afternoon of Wednesday and on Day 7 of the
#EndBadGivernanceInNigeria protest, the official X handle (formerly known as
Twitter) of President Bola Tinubu posted a video clip of the President
appealing to Nigerians to relax the protest and give his administration more
time.
“The video went viral on the 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.” What a wawu!
“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, 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
and disinformation 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.
“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.
“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 disinformation and the attendant consequence of bad
governance.”
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