Atiku mocks, Tinubu “deficient in credibility,” deploys old video to cover up poor performance in broadcast
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has knocked the media handlers of Bola Tinubu for attempting to deceive Nigerians into believing he is a compassionate man even when they themselves know the public knows the President lacks credibility and only cares for his personal interest.
All the Tinubu people, including his chief propagandist and hit man Bayo Onanuga, know who he really is – as summed up by Tinubu’s (current) Social Media Adviser Dada Olusegun in a tweet 13 years ago.
“Bola Tinubu, he’s a corrupt man, he is just a man covered with deceit, he can’t deceive me though ….,” Olusegun tweeted on 27 November 2011, which was recently dug up by netizens who called him out over his (new) support for a man he calls dishonest.
Atiku, through his Media Adviser Paul Ibe, described the use of an old video of Tinubu appealing to Nigerians as an attempt to cover up for his poor response in his broadcast last Sunday to the #Endbadgovernance protest as evidence of his duplicity.
“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,” Ibe said.
“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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